Topic: Mangatu River

White shares the story of Marcus Matawhero Lloyd, an Ngā Ariki Kaiputahi member who worked to bring an ancestral Māori fort (pa) back into a living context. Unlike government heritage projects that treat sites as ruins of the past, Lloyd used "deep listening" and ancestral guidance to rediscover lost technologies, such as a sacred steam system. This process illustrates the difference between static Western restoration and animistic communal creation with the dead.