HAKA

IALT: Summarise a text l have read.

There was a chief called Te Rauparaha of the Ngati Toa.

He had many enemies. He left his tribe to find other fighters to help them.

He arrived at another chiefs village they hid him from his enemies. He hid in a potatoe bit.  

The enemies came but could not find him. He had escaped!

He went back to his people and told them of his adventures. He told them about the footsteps coming, footsteps leaving coming out of the pit. They began to stamp their feet, opened their eyes Wide (pukana), stuck out their their tongues and began to Haka! They taught the haka to many generations.

Ka mate! Ka mate! Ka ora! Kaora! Ka mate! Ka mate! Ka ora! Ka ora! Tenei te Tangata puhuruhuru Nana nei i tiki mai Whakawhiti te ra! Upane ka upane upane ka upane whiti te ra!.