Moriori, Ngati Mamoe and Ngati Kahungunu; railway worker, sportsman, dance band leader
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Joey Matenga Ashton (3 June 1907–8 November 1993) was a New Zealand railway worker, sportsman, dance band leader. Of Moriori and Māori descent, he identified with the Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Mamoe ...
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Keri Hulme (9 March 1947 - 27 December 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Her novel, The Bone People, won the Man Booker Prize in 1985. She was the first New Zealander to win ...
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Piri John Ngarangikaunuhia Sciascia ONZM (6 November 1946 – 18 January 2020) was a New Zealand Māori leader, kapa haka exponent, and university administrator. From 2016 until his death, he served as k ...
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Kiti Karaka Riwai (1870–1927) was a New Zealand tribal leader. Of Māori and Moriori descent, she identified with the Ngati Mamoe iwi. She was born in Ruapuke Island, Southland, New Zealand in 1870. Her ...
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Hariata Whakatau Pitini-Morera (1871–1938) was a New Zealand Māori leader, genealogist, historian, conservationist and weaver. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Ngāi Tahu and Ngati Mamoe ...
Ngai Tahu and Ngati Mamoe woman of mana, craftswoman, mutton-birder
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Hiria Kokoro-Barrett (3 June 1870–1943) was a New Zealand tribal leader, craftswoman, mutton-birder. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Ngai Tahu and Ngati Mamoe iwi. She was born in Tuahiwi, North ...
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Pahikore Te Koeti Turanga (18 November 1883 – 13 March 1964), also known as John Butler Te Koeti, was a notable New Zealand mountaineer, guide, bushman, axeman. Of Māori descent, he identified with ...
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Robert Agrippa Moengaroa Whaitiri (9 May 1916 – 11 July 1996) was a notable New Zealand guide, soldier, launch and tug master, factory manager, community leader. Of Māori descent, he identified ...
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Khyla J. Russell is a New Zealand academic and Māori of Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Rapuwai descent. She was appointed full professor at Otago Polytechnic on 1 February 2012 and emeritus professor at ...
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Charles Eldon Fayne Robinson (born 1964) is a New Zealand Māori artist specialising in carving. Robinson has contributed to the carving of buildings on many marae in New Zealand as well as exhibiting his ...
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Becky Manawatu (born 1982) is a New Zealand writer of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha, and Pākehā background. In 2020, she won two Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her first novel, Auē and Best Crime ...
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Ria Tikini or Ria Te Kini (ca.1810 – 19 July 1919), also known as Mrs Chicken, was a businesswoman, cultural informant, and midwife from Kāi Tahu and Kāti Mamoe descent. She was an informant for ethno ...
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Hipa Te Maiharoa (?–1886) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader, tohunga and prophet. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngai Tahu iwi. He was born in Te Wai-a-te-ruati, South Canterbury, New Zealand ...
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Kāti Māmoe (also spelled Ngāti Māmoe) is a Māori iwi. Originally from the Heretaunga Plains of New Zealand's Hawke's Bay, they moved in the 16th century to the South Island which at the time was already ...