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Ana Scotney (Ngāti Tāwhaki) calls herself a Māori-Jewish-Buddhist kid with qualms. Raised outside of the rohe, she wasn't really connected to her Tūhoe side except during the school holidays.  She would travel back to the heart of Te Urewera - Ngāputahi where her late father, Joseph Doherty and step-mum Joanna Doherty lived. Here...

Ko Summah Te Kahika-Heemi tōku īnoa. I te taha o tōku pāpā. Ko Maungapōhatu te mauna. Ko Tauranga te awa. Ko Tanatana te marae. Ko Ngāti Rere te hāpu. Traveling back and forth between my home in Wellington and the rohe of where my parents grew up in Te Waimana, enabled me to develop a strong connection with my...