This is my Pepeha. I am from Koukourarata (Port Levy) on Banks Peninsula, though grew up in North Canterbury. My ancestors owned a timber mill in Little River and felled many native trees to help build Christchurch in the late 1800s (I feel quite guilty about this now, but those were the times they lived in). My partner, Verity, is Kai Tahu and her ancestry originates from Colac Bay, Takutai o Te Titi Marae, in Southland, a beautiful place that looks South towards Rakiura.
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