Māori tribal leader Ned Tapa takes a group of friends and family on a canoe trip down the Whanganui River in Aotearoa/N | dG1fMzZaZk1wV3pwaHc
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00:00The river is the biggest player in who I am.
00:20Our trip is about us as people coming together.
00:25It's about saving rivers, saving the planet.
00:28But as far as tipping over upside down, hasn't happened yet.
00:38I can feel it all leaving me. Can you?
00:45Yeah, every time.
00:47I can feel all the unhealthiness, it's all leaving me.
00:50Everything in this world in our eyes is a force of life within.
01:01There's something that's much bigger than all of us.
01:04And we're just players in this bigger play that's happening, you know.
01:09Righto, we've got to get a bit of steam up people.
01:11Alright, let's give it a whack.
01:23We're in the right place.
01:24Yeah.
01:30Oh yeah, we're modern Māoris.
01:40Everything represents one small tiny little piece in this larger weave.
01:50We have so much to learn from indigenous cultures.
01:56I do see a shift in kind of my generation and younger people my age.
02:04You have rivers and lakes and seas in your own country.
02:07Go home and look after your water.