ABSTRACTThis article examines the specifically indigenous world-view of a group of Māori women that participated as part of a series of four focus group discussions I held with expatriate New Zealanders in London in mid-2006. Broadly, the aim of these groups was to question participants about their experiences of watching New Zealand films now that they were living overseas in order to understand their perspectives on national identity. The first three groups largely followed these themes, but the fourth, comprised of four women who self-identified as being involved with Ngāti Rānana (a London-based Māori culture club), took a different direction. While the discussion with this group uncovered personal and familial connections to various national films, it also linked these ideas into a much larger conversation that spans issues of identity, race, class, privilege (or the lack thereof), cross-cultural connection, and belonging—in their myriad forms. In this way analysis of the material became both quantitatively (in terms of responses) and qualitatively (in terms of interaction) a very different undertaking for me from the earlier focus groups, which I have written about elsewhere (Thornley 2009). This article reflects both on the content of the Ngāti Rānana focus group discussions and on my position as a researcher.