Rangi

Rangi embodies the mana (strength) of her whanau (family) standing proud in her Grandmothers ancestral cloak. The Rangitaiki river and Mount Putauaki dominate the distant landscape and is the mountain and river of the Ngāti Awa people. Her people. Their history is both wondrous and tragic. For a people whose land is both spiritual and functional, the lingering impact and consequences of colonial land confiscation are still so visible and felt today, over 150 years later. Te Teko is a powerful community and symbolic of so many indigenous cultures universally who continue to struggle with loss and hope from the aftermath of historic land theft