She tells me a fascinating story about the economics pre-colonization.

There's a variety of tools being found along here that indicates probably five or six, maybe even 700 years of habitation just in this area.

So they would use the Mata'o, the Klutha River, as their roadway.

They'd go out to the lakes over at Kaitangata and they'd get their putangitangi, which is their flapping, is the Paradise Starks.

and then they would go up river to get the kanakana or the lamprey eel.