Untold Pacific History | Episode 4: Rarotonga - The Cursed Cook Islands Hotel | RNZ
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Untold Pacific History is a dynamic, often provocative, but accessible account of New Zealand’s relationship with the Pacific, and the broad impact it's had on NZ’s own history and relationship with Pacific peoples in Aotearoa today.
This is a story of indigenous land rights gone awry, a makutu from an aggrieved family and the failed business ventures of an infamous haunted hotel in Rarotonga.
In pre-colonial times, it was the scene of bloody battles between rival tribes, and ancient spirits are said to patrol the area. It is also the subject of a bitter ownership dispute that dates back more than a century, and which gave rise to the curse that is still said to hang over the area.
This is the cursed Sheraton hotel complex in Rarotonga, a long-abandoned luxury resort lain derelict for a quarter-century. The stories of Italian Mafia connections, failed government business dealings, and indigenous land rights come together in this episode of Untold Pacific History.
*We apologise for any offence caused by Pa Ariki's incorrect statement in this piece that "the More family are all dead" in context of the historic family involved in this land dispute. We acknowledge there are descendants of this family alive today, and that this context was unclear in Pa's statement in this video.
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More’s children are still alive RUDE 😡 she mentions DEAD 💀 use your words wisely MARIE you making a fool of yourself on this HUGE Platform the world’s EYES are watching you I can SAY this because I am MORE RUA’S DAUGHTER very much ALIVE 👍🏽
RULE #1...Never sell ancient family land for foreign $$$. Ancestors anger will be forced to avail its power. I BELIEVE IN ANCESTRAL CURSES...End of Story.
The land isn’t cursed, it’s protected.
They are not all dead.. More's children are still alive how rude to say More's family are all dead.
She said that because shes a thief, and her mother started that sheritan hotel process, and she died because the land doesn't belong to them.
The descendants of More are very much alive
Ummmm….. Heres what I think….. Makutu is just as real today as it would’ve been back when it was casted. Weather you believe in it or not this land was stolen and the ariki was murdered. The tupuna are protecting this land and as long as people who are not of descent tries to set up business on that land, trouble will continue to invade that space. Kia kaha koutou! Take the land back and build for your own people, you’ll be fine!
It is the Greed that is cursed, as it should be. Once true kaitiakitanga is again practiced over the the living land will you see the health of the environment return. Kia Kaha Rarotonga.
Our thoughts with you!
Taranaki, Aotearoa.
I drove onto the property back in '16 and its such a waste, needs to be torn down and left alone in its natural state.
What a beautiful Island.
Fascinating story showing how naïve the Cook Islands government was at the time. Also under that system of landownership you will never see a successfully completed hotel.
Very rude thing to say. More's family is dead is an insult to that family.
Even Mike talking down about Tourism yet he has his own cafe and carving bussiness which are Tourist attractions in the country🙄🙄🙄.
Give the land back.
Pa ariki should remove her title after saying that about her own people
Bust it down, turn it into something useful for the people.
Blessings iyah greetings from Vanuatu 😃😁👍🇻🇺🇻🇺🇻🇺
Thank you ra 😔
The exploitation of indigenous land and culture is an on going atrocity the world over and that is really sad.
i never knew about this island till now ,
We have 50 million dollars let's put raro in Debt....scabs had gone bust but not before they filled their pockets ....clowns....
Build it and then watch how many people will wake up during the night 👀 don't play with ancestral history
Vaima’anga not Vaimanga.
Really keen to get my crew over just to finish the building side of it! Still have great bones! Every time I’m on holiday in Rarotonga I see this place as a vision. to complete it just for the sake of the people on the island. They deserve something special I would do it for free but I don’t know if all my team will be up for it but I’m here for it!!!!
that would be foolish you will fail and regret it like many before and many more to come this land is wrongfully owned
Great to finally hear the truth about this situation 😊
Its a shame. :(
Greetings from California
Ah, the curse was designed to screw over the locals of opportunity. I see now...
Root of all evil. Money 💰
And yet it's also the very thing that gives us more chances and opportunities to help others than anything else in existence besides knowledge. Because it's just a tool. Like all tools it can build or destroy depending on who is wielding it.
Cursed, is a English language religion changed the place, education is free, our people has always been there, got re- educated in English,savage people, for thousand years before captain cook, Rarotonga is a place full of MAREE and AITUTAKI, because of that, local are aware that TAUNGA is a special kind of human being that has always existed now only in Rarotonga the capital, through blood lines of warriors, with out the knowledge of a TAUNGA about everything use of the stars, the land is blood
pa Ariki accept the truth you are not the owner of this land;upoun my first arrival back to raro on my first day my uncle More took me there we spent hours talking about the history of this land the curse that was placed on it the curse that ''''WILL'' remain on this land lets not forget there was a cold blooded murder of one of my family members here;you cannot hide that under a carpet my uncle More was the most spiritual intellectual man i have ever known we sat on muri beach for three nights where he predicted my future,things i would never think would happen to me'' DID'' very scary,also my uncle mastered Reike his inner power was un matched;his wisdom was the same,please dont glorify this to hide the truth,Steve Broadway son of Te Oru o TE RANGI Karataua
Make it In to a family community.
Feed the family's.
Kia ora.kia orana
Yes its not for your benefit its for the greedy pakeha company .
Manea
Paintball and dirt buggies!!! Really!??? Lol
Greed
Greed 🤑
Everything in Raro is stunning, then you come to this piece of shite 🤦🏻♀️ I see there was moving there 24jan 2022 I hope for some cleanup/resolution, it's been way to long
The only way is to bless the land that you can build on top
you can NEVER bless this land every venture has failed from pineapple plantations to this hotel a curse was placed more than once on''our'' land please return it to family
100% cursed. The land has eyes.
First,,
turn it into a casino
Love this film. You could run a tourist business there that would get $350k a year for doing not much. I'm keen to run it!
Shit happens