One of Aotearoa’s great scholars, award-winning author Professor Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa, speaks about his astonishing new book of essays which journeys into the past to bring us into a consideration of the future of the Pacific: its people, its cultures, its pasts and its future.

From the first Indigenous civilisations that flourished in Oceania to the colonial encounters of the nineteenth century, and on to the complex contemporary relationships between New Zealand and the Pacific, An Indigenous Ocean offers new perspectives on this vast ocean.