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Taglines: | 1: One young girl dared to confront the past, change the present and determine the future |
| 2: In the ways of the Ancients, she found a hope for the future |
Plot Summary: On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. 
Plot Keywords: canoe, death-in-childbirth, generation-gap, grandfather-granddaughter-relationship, grandmother-granddaughter-relationship, heritage, motorboat, New Zealand, rope, sexism, tongue, tradition, trophy, uncle-niece-relationship, warrior-race, warrior-woman, whale, young-girl hide
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