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Te Atairangikaahu meeting President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed of India in New Delhi, 1975. Korokī died on 18 May 1966. Leaders from the Kīngitanga subsequently elected Princess Piki to succeed her father during the six-day tangihanga (funeral rites); after an initial reluctance to accept the title, she formally became queen on 23 May, the day Korokī was buried.
The emotionally powerful documentary “Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen,” which is screening at Berlinale, tells the intimate story of legendary Maori filmmaker Merata Mita, who helped to ...
Rika was born in Wellington to a Ngāti Awa, Tūhoe, Te Arawa and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui mother and a Samoan father, and moved to Rotorua at a young age. [1] [5] While her mother did not speak Māori, Rika attended a kōhanga reo, a kura kaupapa, and Māori boarding schools, which allowed her to learn the language from a young age.
On 23 October 2014 at the front of the Whitlam Institute (the former Female Orphan School), members of the Australian Maori community, Nga Puhi elders from the Runanga an Iwi O Nga Puhi and the Director of the Whitlam Institute, Eric Sidoti, took part in a ceremony to honour and remember Te Atahoe and her daughter Mary, who arguably was the first Australian Maori.
Notable women in the field of traditional Māori science include Makereti Papakura, who wrote a thesis on the Māori people, and Rina Winifred Moore, the first female Māori doctor in New Zealand. [27] The Royal Society Te Apārangi also identifies 150 women and their notable contributions to New Zealand in the field of science. [40]
It is a contemporary marae and the wharenui features artworks by Te Waru-Rewiri, Lorraine King, Michael Rewiri-Thorsen, Te Warihi Hetaraka, James Te Kuiti Stewart, Te Hemo Ata Henare and others. [16] In 2019 Te Waru Rewiri was recognised with a Te Waka Toi award, 'Te Tohu o Te Papa Tongarewa Rongomaraeroa | Outstanding contribution to Ngā Toi ...
Atareta and Trevor Maxwell led the leading kapa haka group Ngati Rangiwewehi for several years, taking it to the top of national competitions with performances at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland and in 2005 opening the New Zealand Toi Maori exhibition in San Francisco.
We're seeing double! Meet the Clements twins, Ava Marie and Leah Rose, who have been hailed as the "most beautiful twins in the world." The 8-year-old identical twins from Los Angeles have quickly ...