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One sister, Keri Kaa, rose to become chair of the UNESCO New Zealand Culture Commission [6] and won a 2011 AMP award to publish te reo Māori audio books; a second sister was the writer and poet Arapera Hineira Kaa Blank. [7] His brother was a well-respected New Zealand actor Wi Kuki Kaa.
Lodge was born Mere Harrison in Ruatoria in 1944, the tenth of 13 children of Raniera Harrison and Erana Nika Horimete, and affiliates to Ngāti Porou. [1] [2] After gaining her School Certificate at Ngata Memorial College, she spent a year at Northland College, on the arrangement by her older sister, Kāterina Mataira, to obtain further qualifications so that she could study at Elam School of ...
She studied at the University of Auckland for a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts (Hons) in Education, with the title of her 1990 master's thesis Te Kohanga Reo hei tikanga ako i te reo Maori = Te Kohanga Reo as a context for language learning. [1] [3] She then obtained a Diploma in Teaching from the Auckland Teachers' College. [1]
Te akataka reo Rarotonga; or, Rarotongan and English grammar by the Rev Aaron Buzacott of the London Missionary Society, Rarotonga. 1854. Old grammar in English and Rarotongan "Tuatua mai!" Learn Cook Islands Maori; Te Reo Maori Act 2003; SBS Cook Islands Maori Radio Program. Archived 2017-11-26 at the Wayback Machine Updated each week
Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō [a] (born 13 January 1997) is the Māori Queen since 2024, [3] [4] being elected to succeed her father Tūheitia. [5] The youngest child and only daughter of Tūheitia, she is a direct descendant of the first Māori King, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, who was installed in 1858.
As well as her art, she has advocated for te reo Māori and the language revitalisation efforts. [1] [8] In the 1980s, she worked with Tuakana Mate (Tuki) Nepe, Rawinia Penfold and Elizabeth Rata at Auckland College of Education to develop a curriculum in te reo Māori, and taught in some of first total immersion schools. [1] [2]
The English word Maori is a borrowing from the Māori language, where it is spelled Māori.In New Zealand, the Māori language is often referred to as te reo [tɛ ˈɾɛ.ɔ] ("the language"), short for te reo Māori ("the Māori language").
As part of this work she established Te Punanga o te reo Kuki Airani, a language nest for Cook Islands Māori in Wellington, starting the centre in her garage. [8] In 1991 she became founding president of the national organisation for such nests, Te Punanga o te reo Kuki Airani o Aotearoa. [9]