Regional Economic Development minister Shane Jones hopes $14 million for a new visitor centre at Parihaka will allow the historic Taranaki settlement to become the iconic site it always deserved to be.
It will house taonga and an exhibition of the Parihaka story as well as providing a large space for wananga, conferences and tour groups.
The news comes more than a century after the peaceful settlement was attacked and occupied by colonial troops.
In 2017 the crown formally apologised for the incident, which is remembered as one of the most traumatic colonial acts in Aotearoa's history.
Dr Ruakere Hond speaks to Susie Ferguson.
