Origins

Scotty Morrison explores the origins of the Māori people, visiting the Wairau Bar site which could be the first community in Aotearoa. Scotty tries to locate his hawaiki, his homeland, in the Pacific, but is hawaiki a real place or just a concept?

Scotty learns how early Pākehā researchers got the origins of Māori so wrong. He is surprised to find that several traditional folktales in Samoa are replicated in Māori culture and he makes a shock personal discovery at an ancient Vanuatu urupa.

Series Finale: Scotty travels to Ethiopia to explore the place that is said to be the origin of us all, and he visits the Cook Islands - the stepping off point for waka heading to Aotearoa hundreds of years ago.

Season Premiere: Scotty Morrison explores the origins of the kūmara, which was brought to Aotearoa on waka by Māori across the Pacific Ocean.

Scotty travels to the corners of the Polynesian Triangle, to unravel any evidence of connection with the Indigenous of Rapa Nui and Hawai’i, who are said to share the same Polynesian ancestors.