Historical Videos

Part 1 Wai 262 Refreshers

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Part 2 Wai 262 Refreshers

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Part 3 Wai 262 Refreshers

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Part 4 Wai 262 Refreshers

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Part 5 Wai 262 Refreshers

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Part 6 Wai 262 Refreshers

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Donna Kerridge (Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Mahuta)

Donna is a Kairongoā and shares her hopes and aspiratons for Wai 262

12 Lynell Huria

Lynell shares her insights from her 20 year + career in indigenous intellectual property

Sheridan Waitai - Ngāti Kuri

Sheridan shares her insights as the mokopuna of Saana Murray one of the original claimants of Wai 262 and the legacy left behind for her children, mokopuna and Iwi.

Te Kaurinui Parata - Ngāti Wai

Te Kaurinui Parata shares his insight as a 2nd generation child of the Wai 262 claim and has been raised with caring and respecting the environment his entire life.

Hori Parata - Ngāti Wai

Kaumātua and expert in whale recovery, Hori Parata has flensed close to 500 whales and said from the moment the tohorᾱ washes upon the shore, whales must be acknowledged as whānaunga who have returned to us based off the relationship of the tohorᾱ and the kauri tree which saw Tāne (God of forest) gift the whale to Tangaroa (God of sea). Hori was just seven years old when he attended his first mass stranding, a beaching of porpoises in New Zealand’s Northland, their cries screeching through the air on the deserted stretch of sand.


Parata is renowned in New Zealand as the leading Māori whale expert, called on by tribes around the country for cultural guidance as marine strandings become increasingly complex and fatal.

“Man’s greed in the ocean is hurting the whales,” says Parata, a fierce and uncompromising elder of the Ngātiwai tribe of eastern Northland.

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