To gain an understanding of your cultural identity, all roads eventually lead home to your turangawaewae, your place to stand, to belong.
Are you Māori enough? Do you speak Māori? Is your skin too pale to be Māori? Do you wonder about your percentage of Māori?
Take a look at the history of Omahu Marae, between Napier and Hastings, and iwi Ngati Kahungunu and hapu Ngati Hinemanu and Ngati Upokoiri.