‘ While we’re talking about your whakapapa, can we touch on Tuvalu, because we’re united in feeling a sense of grief that the islands are slowly being taken by the moana. Yes, exactly. People are the most important. They’re where stories come from. I took my parents to their islands in 2001. We went to Tokelau and Sāmoa, and then to Tuvalu. My father and mother told me that the land was much bigger when they were young than it is now, as the sea is slowly taking over ‘ https://e-tangata.co.nz/korero/opetaia-foai-serving-the-ancestors/