There are renewed calls in the Cook Islands for an indigenous Māori name, including Rarotonga's Tākitimu monarch.
The paramount chief has said she fully supported a Māori ancestral name for the nation, according to the Cook Islands News.
Jesse speaks to Colin Tukuitonga, former Pacific Community Director-General
and Associate Dean Pacific at the University of Auckland Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences.
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