The Maori way of life: cultivating magic and freedom in the everyday | FULL DOCUCMENTARY
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- Meet the Karenas, a Maori family of eight, 50 wild horses, a beach, a mountain and a burnt-down house. Peter Karena and his wife Colleen fight to inculcate in their children the qualities of independence, bravery, and happiness amidst the breathtaking scenery of New Zealand's untamed Ruahine Mountains.
The family doesn't have many worldly possessions, but they are physically endowed in a way that most of us can only imagine. The kids play and go on hunts while riding bareback. They are tremendously confident, fearless, and untamed, acting as if risk is an alien concept.
Documentary: This Way of Life
Directed by: Thomas Burstyn
Production: Cloud South Film
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“What I do for a living is that I live for a living, what I do for income is whatever I can without comprising my integrity. If I can combine the two - the living and the income - then that’s good.”
Words to live by.
Difference is you work to live. They don't. They live to work. They they need to go to a 9am to 5pm job and worry bout school drop offs, or uni trips or that city life. They got everything they need, the hunting, the horses for exploring and gatherings, the country and valleys and ocean and most of all. Their family. And if they take up smoking cigarettes. Easy done. The Te Arawa Trail. Which is a pathway that runs from the top of new zealand to the bottom and along that trail are tobbaco trees. The native fruits and veggies and plants and herbs along with british introduced tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, apples, lemons etc. They have everything they need. Except their whare. Aka home. Their marae aka family gathering place past and present and future. Their peace and harmony.
Would love to see another documentary on this beautiful family
I agree
They split up after this doco
@@user-us6rs5ii3e how did you find that out>
@@user-us6rs5ii3e oh no, that's really sad to hear. Hope they are happy
Your stepfather is evil, no doubt about it but as hard as it is to live in your fragile situation it has given you so much insight into how you should treat people and your family. Your family philosophy, morals and values are so heartwarming. I feel so sad for you that you don't have the love and support of your father. He is the one who is missing out on so much. You and your family are amazing ! Keep doing what you're doing its fabulous xx best of luck
I take my hat off to you and your wife bro,you two are free spirited souls who live a life most people only dream of,God bless to you and your whanau
Bro he’s full of shit this guy.!! He left this family for the producer and took off too Germany with her
What in the gypsy horse loving hippy way of life is this magic!?! Peter looks like a Marvel character and his wife and children are so precious and beautiful. I Loved this!,,
In new zealand this way of life and attitude is quite common
Incredibly beautiful. Living from the heart and making money without losing his integrity. A true and powerful man, this Peter.
I keep watching this video over and over... This situation is so familiar but there's a young man who I admire and respect an old soul God Bless brother...
Beautiful parents. What a life. Hardships come and you overcome with great humility. So inspirational. So well spoken. I love this story. Wishing your family all the best. x
i totally agree so humble
Just beautiful. I would have loved to have been raised by such warm hearted truly loving parents.
Anymore on this family....
Keep them coming 100%...
Peter had an affair with a German woman and had a baby with her and left the family
@@shaeheart Woah. How do you know that? I tried to find any news articles on this guy online and came up with a blank.
@@HannahBeWhitty it was posted by several people on social media and internet forums. Eventually the filmmaker confirmed it in the comments of the film's Facebook page with a basic comment along the lines of 'sadly this is true'. The family had travelled to Europe to promote the film. There was some footage several years ago of him training horses in Germany but I can't find it anymore. Everything on him seems to have completely disappeared.
I remember watching this on TV a few years back. Good, honest documentary. Those children probably have families of their own now.
Prime Time best viewing and a number #1 hit in the old TV format! Well done. A neighbour in the Urewera's Nga Putahi
I wish the Karenas all the peace, health, happiness & prosperity that they hope for. I like their way of life & it's a shame that modern society is so money oriented. God bless you all.
An inspiring beautiful Māori family. I'm sorry for what has happened. There's so much love in this family. My experience as a child learning about the Māori culture installed the happiness and love that I've needed to carry through my life. As a Pākehā woman I feel there's still so much we can do collectively as a nation to raise marginal communities and our most vulnerable to make our nation a happier place. I love my country but I sometimes find it hard to be proud of it when you look at our history from colonialism, the British politicians and today's attitudes. We have a lot to be proud of but again there needs to be more support.
Ka Pai bro
All lies they need to tell the truth that they migrated in from South East Asia only 650 years ago and about the people who were already living in nz.
Also how queen Victoria saved them if it wasn't for Queen Victoria there wouldn't be any Maoris around.
@@hardlydavidson1937👀 are you telling the truth?
@@hardlydavidson1937WISHFUL THINKING PAKEHA!!!
@kororakei8191 truth hurts aye
These beautiful family show such resilience during hardship and so much love for one another amazing skills living off the land.what a great natural life lost to many of the new generation coming through.
Yes, loving your kids can save your life.
The kids will be young adults now. Would love to see a follow up documentary.
Pita had an affair and left the family not long after this. Colleen was left to raise the kids on her own.
Seriously? If true they should still do an update on the family!
@@slctph there will never be an update! Pita hooked up with the producer not long after this, got her pregnant and ran with her to Germany.
Bruh, I’m from flaxmere. 10 minutes away from Omahu. EVERYONE here knows what he did to Colleen, the kids and the Karena’s
@@slctphThe parents are divorced. I’m sure this is true unfortunately.
@@user-gj2oz3qj6ghow do yous know? is there somewhere where we can see any updates? i believe you just wanna see where they are now
I so enjoy watching this family, Father & Mother very caring loving children free easy nothing holding them back, wonderful life don't change it for anything ❤❤❤❤
These kids must have families of their own now ❤. Such a shame what happened & horrible that koro & son didn't get along. I hope all ended well for mum & the kids 💕. Beautiful family.
its sad the jealousy from his dad came to that point. To destroy huge family legacy for the sake of utter selfishness and ill feelings towards his son, the impact is his mokopuna are effected by it all. Peter you can see he still cared about his dad in some way, all he was doing was living life with is family in the family home that was rich with history, whakapapa, connection. Colleen and Peter have given their babies the best childhood.
Its also sad that their relationship did not last as i thought it would, but they got beautiful children who have lived a rich life and learned the best skills.
Now in 2024 they would all be young adults living their own lives but keeping the core values they were taught.
The wife seems like a great mother and a very thoughtful person.
There is a God and he loves you and your beautiful family God bless ❤😊❤😊 I'm from Taranaki much love ❤️❤❤❤❤❤❤
I watched it twice. Thank you from my heart❤️
What a lovely family.
Beautiful. This way of life is so inspiring. ❤❤❤
Peter makes my heart very happy his resolve and integrity to his whanau is
Truly amazing Kiaora Koutou katoa Kia kaha Kia mana wanting aroha mai
And then he cheated on his wife and destroyed the family. Great guy!
I really dont think he would have done that to his family... How do you even know this
@@tessobrien8364 I'm not making it up. It's pretty common knowledge.
Thank you for sharing your. selves on every level. Looking forward to another one. Love to hear how you guys are going. You are wonderful parents , beautiful lucky children. Don't worry about your step dad he is sounding like a narcissist who is mentally ill. Peter you are wonderful and you will never be like him. Love and Blessings to your beautiful wife and your kids.
Fantastic documentary, thIs channel Is VERY UNDERRATED.
I read enjoyed this doco and very much liked Peter,his wife and family.May JEHOVAH bless them all.Its very sad father and son don’t get along.
Kia Ora this my my family my mothers 2nd cousin this randomly came to my CZcams feed, looks like god is answer my prayers family is everything hopefully I will be here this year
Beautiful freedom family. Thanks for leave us see your life
I've watched a couple videos
You are an inspiring family
I have shed heaps of tears... empathy and joy
Please... everyone with a new family or planning for a family or with an old family...
Don't be too poor to PAY ATTENTION
this is honest, healthy, wholesome living
That harms no one
And helps everyone by example
Thank you
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Inspiring. You are a beautiful family. Bless you all. Stay true to yourselves ❤
❤❤ngawwwwww what a gorjuss family...they were dealt a raw deal that step dad isn't too loving tho the children still love ther grandparents..such a wholesome lifestyle mum n dad are soooo beautiful I hope they and all the the tamariki are doing well....any updates?❤❤❤❤ this whanau
Love your channel ❤
Omg what a beautiful family, so taken care of and surrpunded by love. So amazing to see my whanau. Much much love 🏞💗🔥👏
The "father" contradicted himself, gaslighting narcissist can't accept his "wife's son" SMH...What a great little family, pity about the "relatives"
I saw this movie a while back - my admiration for this family is deep and I am somewhat nervous of horses. Thought I could watch it again but it is rather emotional for me. Beautifully filmed here in this glorious country. I wish this family only the best......Thank You...........
Thanks so much!
A Fantastic video. What a wonderful life for their beautiful children. I had a step mother and she was a hateful person to me as I was another woman’s child. I am not a 100% that she broke my parents up but I never felt love from her and when I was told she died I never cried a tear. Am I a horrible person? No. What was done to me growing up made me Hard.
I can feel so much love in this family. God Bless you all.
What amazing family such a good father
Amazing documentary.
Thanks so much!
Such a amazing family going through trials and tribulations ❤️💛🌻
This is a beautiful family who don’t deserve this 😢❤️
This is a good documentary enjoyed it, be good to know what happened to this family
Thanks!
such a beautiful family may Godbless you all xx
amazing documentary
Thank you!
Wow....how wonderful to lizten to one so wise
what a rich life looks like,
How precious this whanau an the life that they have ❤️ so beautiful
2024 update please!!!
The parents divorced years ago. Rumour mill is that the dad Peter had an affair and left Colleen.
@@mamaraah2578 the rumor mill, so you dont know for sure, but youre spreading rumors. Shame on you.
@@mamaraah2578 the rumor mill, so you dont know for sure, but youre spreading rumors. Shame on you.
The father is narcissist.Power to you and your family brother.
Love this family so much ❤❤ keep doing what use are doing with your whanau.. the negativity will eventually leave as they have shown themselves of how we should never be... my husband said if we were there he would gladly bash them for you.. hehehe
Great parents wonderful indeed even though certain things happen that are not worthy.
Stay close to each other whanau, life is still amazing.
Cool story ,shame his father had a chip on his shoulder,,, love the whanau, and the horses and the land ,,,
The biggest threat to Maori is other Maori.
Please make a follow up documentary.
Blessings whanau Ataahua
Yea brother. But you've worded your sentence wrong. we do not "own" land, that is a pakeha concept, we PROTECT land. Sadly alot of our tribes lost the protection for the land and now the beautiful sites are destroyed, lakes polluted, and native forests are dying, while they keep planting their species on our land, more than half of the native trees have been killed and replaced.
Good 👍 man grate horse menshipe
shot, what a great lifestyle
Man its been year since i seen this doco atleast 10
What a beautiful whanau
Mayjehovah be with you
Beautiful family live off the land so sad to see grandmother don't give love back to grandkids his step dad so nasty to him turning his wife against them grandkids a the most important things in life it is so sod😥
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COOL WHANAU!!
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NZ FREE RANGE RIGHT THERE CUZZI CHRRRR
How is this family doing now?
I remember this Tangata seen documentary about him way back Mauri Ora
These kids be all grown up now 👍🏾
Can we see and update or name
MEAN MAORI MEAN ❤
Are there any updates on this beautiful family.... Would love to know if they are doing ok etc.... This family shows us what is so very wrong in this world... Please could there be a update
Yes please how can we find out how the family's doing now
Does anybody know when this was filmed?
2012
@@jamainechase6119 thanks ! i wish there was more episodes
The man has a brave heart, a wise man. ALPHA male!
For a house that has had so many generations, you would think they would take care of it out of respect for the tupuna that built it!!
“I’m not gunna be bullied into paying rent”
Common people WAKE UP!! There is absolutely more to this story you all know nothing about!.
Like what enlighten us
@@willwick4353 they were squatting, brought a lot of mamae to the whanau. Ran to Germany with the producer and left Colleen to raise all the kids on her own. Colleen and the kids still in the bay, Pita never been back.
Enlightened now?
@@user-gj2oz3qj6g Thanks for that understand this is shocking
How do you even know this
@@tessobrien8364 Im from here.
Yip, I do that cool stuff with my kids too so we'll done.....but we are all New Zealanders bro so hope your lovely kids grow up to love New Zealand..
but could see how your vid soon turned to the very clever sob story, which many of us have been thru. Either go forward in life or go way way back to the past but don't do the guilt trip.
Sad your lovely kids are showing being filmed playing with little English and French soldiers, as you've taught them to say.........they have been taught to hold a grudge for sure..........sad but hope you all have a good life as I want for my kids too. Life is too short for hate. ❤
Is there any more episodes on this family?
No more episodes as Peter left the wife and kids for the producer of this doco. Crazy huh
@@jamainechase6119 what?? no way! the poor wife 🥺
@@amyfinlayson yeah super crazy.!! So not only did that lady producer make a good little doco on the family but then decides to take the husband with her.!! Weird how Peter comes across as the ultimate family man. Dudes full of shit
@@jamainechase6119 im so shocked too! he came across like such an honest bloke. I wonder how the wife is going with the kids. :( that would be hard doing it alone. Im a solo mum with one baby and its already hard let alone 5 kids
Aueeeee 🥺🥺🥺Kia kaha whanau..so sad about Ur papakainga, but I all will get there.n
Step father is deluded,and can't stand his stepson is living better than himself,you can tell by the way he says "he's tried to assert power",step father is toxic and jealous,the son is living his best life
Very sad to see and know their house was burn down and the grand father hate his son's
Bittersweet
This is an isolated case !
Some ppl win the lottery and some ppl are the lottery
He aha te mea nui i tenei ao?
He tangata,he tangata,he tangata.. isn't that a Maori saying or proverb or something.its sad to see whanau like this and the whole World's watching,i don't know what's going on up there in your hinengaro (brain) the father &son , just look at your beautiful mokos and children , you'd think the elder would know better being older and wiser, but no,he sounded a bit nasty when I heard him talking to the lady.. And the son's not helping things by saying on the documentary that his father doesn't tell the truth about who shot what on their hunting trips back in the day .😔 But this young falla sounds alright his wife and kids all happy,at least he's got no bulldog or fist tattooed all over him,he just wants to do good and the right things for his young family, where ever they go from here i hope to God they succeed ,e mihi atu kia koe e hoa
mau tonu ki o tumanako me hoki to whanau ataahua God bless
Oh bummer I shouldn’t have clicked in here 😢
Hmm... rose cross... hmmmmmm..
Well you got the life... if you want my advice.. don't over analyze your kids... let them be what they want to be
Most would not resonate with this. A long time gotten.
We are the kaitiaki of this beautiful land we call Aotearoa, not owners, that is a Pakeha conception.
Your asleep:
If this is true why are the tribes taking back “There Land” forshore & Sea bed, wake up your dreaming while your tribes are getting rich out of claiming there so called rights and taking back our land!
It doesn’t matter what color skin you have there will always be greed, Maori are no different
@auintogold4725 You're asleep, buddie, your tupuna would be disappointed. When they said OUR LAND, they were meaning for all the generations to come. They knew exactly what they were talking about.
Whatungarongaro te tangata, toitū te whenua.
Maori are taking the land back because the government is destroying it and wasting our taxed dollars on rubbish ideas and lining their pockets.
Hate to see when good people get screwed over. His father will be filled with regret when he is in his death bed.
So...Peter ended up having an affair with one of the producers,getting her pregnant and running away to Germany,leaving his wife to raise their kids??! Dang dude..
Pity Peter cheated on Colleen and tore the family apart
if thats true he is a shit shit person.
what how do you know
@@teeganedwards6020 It's been reported by multiple sources.
Like what sources... Prove what you are saying
@@tessobrien8364Believe me or don't. I don't care.
Ummm❓️ This is the life every farmer lived. Tribal or Not☝🏾 but the Marae life is the True Essence of Aotearoa taught and passed down to us by our Kaumatua not Pakeha☝🏾💯
There is so much here that doesn't add up. They have clearly been living in the step fathers family home for quite some time so there has clearly been a more recent falling out which he is extremely vague about as the wife doesn't even seem too keen to say. I'd say the step father feels taken advantage of. They were going to the auction to buy the house so why didn't they buy some other land of their own when it fell through. How can he afford that many horses and kids when making it look like the horse trekking business was selling his soul somehow lol. How did the house burn down. I don't know I really don't see the beautiful way of life others see from the sounds of the comments section. It just feels like we are being fed one liners with no explanations. He seems like a hustler. If he truly lived how he spoke his family would be living a peaceful life.
I just read a comment from someone that was local to the family. The 'husband' ended up going to Germany with one of the producers of the documentary,leaving the 'wife' to raise the kids and has never returned to NZ...
i guess the part about peter cheating on colleen with the one of the crew of this doc and knocking her up didn't make the cut
What a load of sh_t
Rongo whakata Maori tribe have blue eyes it is irrelevant what color you the eyes are it's the Wairua that counts
just forgive him stepdad so you live free. theres enough people who have watched this to hate on him .he is so so unkind no integrity at all keep your children away from him
The British and European people saved the Maori, from dying out. Thats the truth
lol
Bullshit
British people left trauma in their wake as they marched around the globe, stealing resources from occupied lands. Enslaving people, and leaving the culture, language, and people decimated. Gifting small pox, committing genocide, should I go on... nah
Help this whanau.????
this is like 20years ago
The parents divorced years ago. The children are young adults now.
Bullshit. There is no one maori way of life.
Living off land
How does a "Maori" have blue eyes when it takes matched recessive allels to create them, neither of which are found in the "Maori Genome"? LOL!
Dad was a Maori. Mum was of European decent 👌 (Pakeha).
@@kiwirants2107 "Descent". LOL! Those blue eyes require matched recessive allels, which means Dad had some "descent", as well, which means he's half a happa.....at best. LOL! The ol "One Drop Rule" as we say in the States. LOL! Show this guy to anyone in the world and ask them if he looks Polynesian and/or Maori, the answer will be "No". He's beyond "passing". He passed. LOL! As ever, the "Liberal Left" loves playing Identity Politics wherein they make up any "Identity" they like.
Blue-eyed Polynesians.......riiiiiiiiiiiight ;)
My mum and dad were Moari... but my father's grand father was Irish. Lot of green and blue-eyed aunties and uncles I have. Just my dad had brown eyes, but he a maori underneath his fair maori skin. Fluent and respected.
Ngāti Hotu red hair green eyes fair skin predate the later arrivals
😂😂😂 My eldest brother was born a redhead with green eyes, my 2nd eldest bro curly blonde with blue/ green, 3rd bro raven haired aquamarine eyes, 4th straight blonde with green eyes,5th curly raven haired aquamarine eyes, all fair skinned 3/4 Maori. I am no.6 girl, darkeyed, dark haired & dark olive skinned. All 3/4 Maori, Scott's & other nations descent - go figure 🤔