Set in the 1970s in Auckland when the Bastion Point Maori protests were going on. Conrad is a Pakeha boy who reads about Tane, Maori god of the forests, and starts 'praying' to Tane to help with his family situation - mother lives with a control-freak policeman. Conrad gets the idea that he would like to become a Maori, just like his neighbour who came from Ireland has just become a New Zealand citizen. He wants to know about Bastion Point but no-one will explain it to him clearly so he goes up there to ask a man who used to teach at the school.Set in the 1970s in Auckland when the Bastion Point Maori protests were going on. Conrad is a Pakeha boy who reads about Tane, Maori god of the forests, and starts 'praying' to Tane to help with his family situation - mother lives with a control-freak policeman. Conrad gets the idea that he would like to become a Maori, just like his neighbour who came from Ireland has just become a New Zealand citizen. He wants to know about Bastion Point but no-one will explain it to him clearly so he goes up there to ask a man who used to teach at the school.
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