167 - Tupaia

167 - Tupaia

Author: Thomas Rillstone August 16, 2025 Duration: 34:33
History of Aotearoa New Zealand
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James Cook has now met Tupaia, high priest of Tahiti and advisor to the chief Purea. He is going to become very important to our story so it is worth going back a few years in the timeline to talk about his early life as well as the culture and history of the Society Islands through his eyes. This will set us up nicely for the next episode where we will explain the backstory of the conflict that the Europeans had found themselves in the middle of!


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