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Huia Come Home

By: J. Ruka
Narrated by: J. Ruka
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Once the sacred guardian of New Zealand's native forests, the hHuia was a symbol of the land's unique beauty and spirituality. The rare bird's tragic extinction in the early 1900s represents a shot to the heart of Aotearoa and is a potent metaphor for a country's conflicted history.

Using the story of the untimely extinction of the huia, J. Ruka offers a fresh perspective on the narrative of New Zealand: a tale of two cultures, warring worldviews, and the things we lost in translation.

Revisiting the early missionaries, the transformative message of the Gospel, and the cultural missteps of the Treaty of Waitangi, Huia Come Home invites us to reconnect with the unique story offered by the indigenous Māori lens.

In relearning the history that lies in the soil of Aotearoa, we might just find a shared hope for the future and a recovery of national treasures once thought to be extinct.

©2017 Jefferson Lucas (aka J. Ruka) (P)2018 Jefferson Lucas (aka J. Ruka) Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Christianity Oceania
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I will listen to this book over & over again. Aotearoa NZ's spiritual journey using our extinct Huia bird as an analagy of 200 years of cultural suppression in the name of God.
Highly recommended listening. The author, Jay Ruka is very easy to listen to. Thank you Jay.

Thank you God. Spiritual enlightenment.

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This is a hugely important book for Pakeha to challenge their world view. The narrator was excellent.

Important, challenging, inspirational

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Huia Come Home is an excellent book. Given it was first published in 2017, it feels prescient to the racism Māori are having to endure in 2025 during this incredibly destructive hard right Luxon coalition government.

Excellent Aotearoa History

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Incredibly powerful and important story which every New Zealander, Christian or otherwise, should learn from.

Powerful

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Totally Shocked By What I Learnt, It Aquired My Patience & Attention.
Found It Interesting 😉

Ross Richards Shared The Title Of This Book 13/07

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