New Zealand's Maori anoint new queen, bury late king

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00:00New Zealand's indigenous Māori's anointing new Queen.

00:03Ngā Waihono i Te Po succeeds her father to Hetia at the age of 27.

00:08After being elected by a council of elders, she was ushered to the throne

00:12where she sat alongside her father's coffin prior to his burial.

00:16Māori's present welcome to the new Queen.

00:19We're extremely happy that Ngā Waihono i Te Po is our new Queen.

00:23She's the best person for the position and you'll see across

00:27Everybody's faces here, we all agree.

00:30Te Hetia Potatu Te Wero Wero died last Friday after undergoing heart surgery at the age of 69.

00:37The position of Māori monarch is ceremonial, holding no constitutional power,

00:42though it does have influence over many of New Zealand's iwi or tribes.

00:47And the late king was respected across broader New Zealand society.

00:51What he's done to unite this many people across Aotearoa who don't see eye to eye often,

00:57is probably a really good sign of the legacy that he's left here.

01:00Everything is done through manaakitanga, through respect, through aroha, through love.

01:10In a traditional ceremony, mourners brought to Hetia's remains upriver by a flotilla of war canoes

01:16for burial on Mount Tapiri, sacred to the Waikato iwi.

01:21His daughter becomes only the second woman to reign as monarch

01:24since the royal was established in 1858.

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