Koroua Hekenuku establishes whakapapa connections to his tupuna Tarutaru and his birth on 1 August 1932 at his papakāinga Pukepoto located at the starting point of Te One Roa a Tohe. We learn that he attended the local school, did not enjoy learning literacy and left school on his fifteenth birthday.
A series of conversations profiling some of our last remaining male elders, focusing on the transition of Maori to the present day.