I hail from Te Tai Tokerau, and also hail from the Pacific. Over there, when I arrived in that land, I thought about my connections when I was travelling to other places in the Pacific. Some of the members said to me while we were in the karaka grove, "This place is not New Zealand—this place is not New Zealand. This place belongs to the Pacific Ocean, as do the descendants of the tribe, the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands." As I was travelling I felt that life force because it reminded me of the time I travelled to some of the islands all around the Pacific Ocean and when I was travelling to the tip of the Polynesian square, to Hawaii, to stay with the indigenous Hawaiians. While I was travelling to some of the islands in the Polynesian square I thought, however distant they are, I still feel that spirit and life force in the land of the Chatham Islands, because the land, the land has its language, the ocean has its language, and the karaka grove has its language.