Whakamīere - Reo Māori Stories

A gardener has a pest problem: a hare keeps eating all his vegetables! So he calls upon his landlord, who is a great hunter, to help him sort the problem out.
 
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A boy is stung by a nettle and runs home to tell his mother. This episode also includes some very useful information before the kōrero, please listen to it fully.
 
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A proud warhorse meets a lazy pig, and they have very different outlooks on life and each other's purpose.
 
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After a little fish is caught, he pleads to be released, and makes a promise to the man.
 
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War has waged between the cats and the mice for as long as we can remember, but the mice have a plan to help them win. What could it be?
 
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A fowler is asked by a blackbird what he is doing, and the blackbird naïvely takes him at his word.
 
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In the final chapter of Wini-te-Pū, Kiritopa Rōpene throws a party and invites all our friends along to celebrate a very special bear.
 
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While felling a tree, a man loses his axe in the river, but Mercury appears to help him out.
 
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A classic fable about the everlasting battle between beauty and brains.
 
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Two travelers come across an axe in a wood, but there is disagreement about whose it should be.
 
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