Pasifika comes to New Zealand

Let’s look at one of the Polynesian groups. Now if you press on here, on the Pacific, any one of those groups, the people really who came to New Zealand, an awful lot from Samoa as you can see, a lot from Tonga, and then there are two little communities, both of whom have got more people living in New Zealand, than in their homelands, the Tokelauans, and the Niueans. Quite a number from the Cook Islands, and some Fijians. You know theyt had a big coupe in Fiji in the 1980s, and quite a lot came from Fiji in the 1980s. And this is the story here all about the Cook Islanders. I might just show some of the images we’ve got here. This is a image of a Cook Island community dancing at the Pasifika Festival that is always held in Auckland every year, and this is the kind of dancing that they do at that festival; a very proud tradition of dancing within the Cook Island community.