Ngāti Pikiao & the Kīngitanga | Full Lecture with Rehua Mihaka

📍 Te Arawa Whānau Ora Office | 🎥 Full Lecture Recording
🎤 Speaker: Rehua Mihaka

This is the full unedited recording of an insightful lecture with Rehua Mihaka, who shared the deep and enduring relationship between Ngāti Pikiao and the Kīngitanga.

Rehua Mihaka is a respected rangatira and our Te Arawa representative on Te Tekau ma rua — the Kingitanga Council of Twelve. His kōrero weaves together whakapapa, kōrero tuku iho, mōteatea and kaupapa in a way that both grounds us and uplifts us.

More than a lecture — this was a night of reconnection, reflection, and recommitment to the kaupapa that continues to bind our people across generations.

⏱ Timestamps:
0:00:00 – Introduction
2:45:00 – Kaupapa Kōrero
4:11:10 – E Tama Puta Kino Pātere
8:47:20 – Whakatauāki
9:12:23 – The beginnings of Te Ure Tārewa o te Kīngitanga – Pikiao
9:28:20 – Pikiao Whakapapa & Story
20:33:05 – Why Pikiao is called Te Uretārewa o te Kīngitanga
22:08:01 – Pikiao brings his son home to Rotorua
24:32:11 – Hekemaru returns to Waikato
26:01:09 – The question for a king – Mātene Te Whiwhi
26:48:23 – Te Amohau
27:16:11 – Te Amohau's Whakatauāki
28:22:03 – Support for the Kīngitanga
38:17:00 – Te Puea Hērangi
40:20:15 – 1960s: Pikiao begins support at Koroneihana
42:34:21 – Ngā hononga ki te Kīngitanga
48:39:18 – Poukai in the present day
50:15:03 – The future of Poukai in Te Arawa
53:08:23 – Q&A

💬 Ngā mihi to everyone who attended and continues to carry this kaupapa.

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