The Politics of Toheroa Soup | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The Politics of Toheroa Soup is Tiana Trego Hall’s personal story of her whānau and their traditional kai, the protec | dG1fNUVMOFRTZ2t4OVE

Transcript

00:00 (waves crashing)

00:02 When I was a little girl,

00:05 I came to this coast with my mum, my nan and my aunties.

00:10 We had come to gather a much loved delicacy,

00:13 a giant surf clam only found in New Zealand called toheroa.

00:18 For hundreds of years,

00:20 my family and other West Coast Maori across Aotearoa

00:24 have gathered toheroa as a staple food source.

00:29 In the 1930s, the toheroa became popular in New Zealand,

00:33 gaining recognition in parts of the world.

00:37 In one weekend in 1966 alone,

00:40 it is recorded that 12,000 cars

00:43 and 50,000 people visited Ripiroa Beach

00:47 and harvested about 1 million toheroa.

00:50 That's the law.

00:52 That's the law.

00:54 You know, I'll take you.

00:58 Yeah, well, the legends,

01:00 the stories are legends.

01:02 Toheroa means to persist longer.

01:06 Toheroa, to dig deeper.

01:10 You know, there were these thieves from up the north.

01:13 You know, where you come from, the north?

01:16 Well, if you're from the north, you fill a thieve.

01:18 You come down our flat,

01:19 you came down to our beach at Ripiroa

01:22 'cause they were hunting for food.

01:24 They heard this wind going,

01:26 "Hoo, hoo, toheroa."

01:30 Toheroa means to persist longer.

01:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]