Our Waka Design

The waka we made is to show how the migration of how the first people came to this land and what they brought, what they ate and how they lived. Migration is every movement of human beings from one place to another, either temporarily or permanently. Purakau/Pakiwaitara is another way of storytelling but in the form of hakas and songs. Wahi Tapu is a safe and “sacred place to the Maori.” This all relates to migration because when the people first came, they named different places to a special meaning. And they share their stories from their ancestors by songs and hakas. Some places are sacred.