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Wiremu Te Awhitu
Wiremu is a masculine given name, the Māori form of William. Notable people with the name include: People with given name Wiremu * Aaron Wiremu Cruden (born 1989), New Zealand rugby union player * Wiremu Doherty, New Zealand Māori educationalist and academic * Sydney Wiremu Eru, (born 1971), New Zealand rugby league player * Wiremu Gudgeon, New Zealand politician * Rata Wiremu Harrison (1935–2013), New Zealand rugby league player * Wiremu Heke (1894–1989), New Zealand rugby union player * Hōne Wiremu Heke Pōkai (c.1807/08–1850), Maori chief and war leader * Wiremu Hikairo (c.1780/90–1851), New Zealand tribal leader * Hoani Wiremu Hīpango (c.1820–1865), New Zealand tribal leader * Wiremu Hoani Taua (1862–1919), New Zealand tribal leader * David Wiremu Houpapa (born 1981), New Zealand cricketer * Wiremu Hukunui Manaia (?–1892), New Zealand tribal leader * Wiremu Katene (?–1895), New Zealand politician * Wiremu Kerei Nikora (1853–1915), member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori Language
Māori (), or ('the Māori language'), also known as ('the language'), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. Closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, and Tahitian, it gained recognition as one of New Zealand's official languages in 1987. The number of speakers of the language has declined sharply since 1945, but a Māori-language revitalisation effort has slowed the decline. The 2018 New Zealand census reported that about 186,000 people, or 4.0% of the New Zealand population, could hold a conversation in Māori about everyday things. , 55% of Māori adults reported some knowledge of the language; of these, 64% use Māori at home and around 50,000 people can speak the language "very well" or "well". The Māori language did not have an indigenous writing system. Missionaries arriving from about 1814, such as Thomas Kendall, learned to speak Māori, and introduced the Latin alphabet. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Kīngi
Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke (c. 1795 – 13 January 1882), Māori Chief of the Te Āti Awa Tribe, was leader of the Māori forces in the First Taranaki War. He was born in 1795-1800 in Manukorihi pa, near Waitara. He was one of the 3 sons of Te Rere-tā-whangawhanga and Te Kehu. He and his father Te Rere-tā-whangawhanga were involved in the major disturbances and migrations caused by the Musket Wars. They were probably involved in the sieges of Pukerangiora and Otaka in 1832. They also probably fought alongside Te Rauparaha during his tribe's journey from Kawhia to Waikanae in 1822. He returned in 1824, and led the tribe to settle in Waikanae in 1834. However, he is mainly associated with Waitara in Northern Taranaki. In 1839 Colonel William Wakefield toured the area and persuaded the Māori chiefs to sign various deeds that transferred ownership of most of the tribal land to the New Zealand Company. The transaction was to cause a great deal of trouble and eventually w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Piti Pomare
Wiremu Piti Pomare (? – 29 January 1851) was a New Zealand Māori leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngati Mutunga iwi Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, .... References 1851 deaths Ngāti Mutunga people Year of birth missing {{Māori-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māui Pōmare
Sir Māui Wiremu Pita Naera Pōmare (1875 or 1876 – 27 June 1930) was a New Zealand doctor and politician, being counted among the more prominent Māori political figures. He is particularly known for his efforts to improve Māori health and living conditions. However, Pōmare's career was not without controversy: he negotiated the effective removal of the last of Taranaki Maori land from its native inhabitants – some 18,000 acres – in a move which has been described as the "final disaster" for his people. He was a member of the Ngati Mutunga iwi originally from North Taranaki; he later lived in Wellington and the Chatham Islands after the 1835 invasion. Early life The date of Pōmare's birth is unclear—school records give 24 August 1875 but other sources give 13 January 1876. He was born at a pa near Urenui in Taranaki. His father, Wiremu Naera Pōmare, was of Ngāti Mutunga descent and his mother, Mere Hautonga Nicoll, was of Ngāti Toa descent. His maternal grandmot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Pere
Wiremu "Wi" Pere (7 March 1837 – 9 December 1915), was a Māori Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He represented Eastern Māori in the House of Representatives from 1884 to 1887, and again from 1893 to 1905. Pere's strong criticism of the government's Māori land policies and his involvement in the turbulent land wars in the 1860s and 1870s made him a revered Māori leader and he was known throughout his career as an contentious debator and outstanding orator in the use of the Māori language. Biography Wi Pere was born in 1837 at Tūranga ( Gisborne), the son of English Poverty Bay trader Thomas Halbert and esteemed Māori Rīria Mauaranui of Te Whānau-a-Kai hapū of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Rongowhakaata. Pere was baptised William Halbert but commonly went by his Maori name, Wiremu Pere (William Bell). From a young age Pere was noted for his shrewdness and identified by elders as having exceptional intelligence. He was raised largely under the tutelage of his mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Patara Te Tuhi
Wiremu is a masculine given name, the Māori form of William. Notable people with the name include: People with given name Wiremu * Aaron Wiremu Cruden (born 1989), New Zealand rugby union player * Wiremu Doherty, New Zealand Māori educationalist and academic * Sydney Wiremu Eru, (born 1971), New Zealand rugby league player * Wiremu Gudgeon, New Zealand politician * Rata Wiremu Harrison (1935–2013), New Zealand rugby league player * Wiremu Heke (1894–1989), New Zealand rugby union player * Hōne Wiremu Heke Pōkai (c.1807/08–1850), Maori chief and war leader * Wiremu Hikairo (c.1780/90–1851), New Zealand tribal leader * Hoani Wiremu Hīpango (c.1820–1865), New Zealand tribal leader * Wiremu Hoani Taua (1862–1919), New Zealand tribal leader * David Wiremu Houpapa (born 1981), New Zealand cricketer * Wiremu Hukunui Manaia (?–1892), New Zealand tribal leader * Wiremu Katene (?–1895), New Zealand politician * Wiremu Kerei Nikora (1853–1915), member of the New Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pratney
William Pratney (born Wiremu Paratene, 20 May 1909 – 25 August 2001) was a New Zealand professional cyclist and politician. He won New Zealand championship titles on track and on road. Born in 1909, Pratney was originally named Wiremu Paratene. His mother died giving birth to him and he was initially raised by his grandmother who also died a few years later. He was then raised in an orphanage and named William Pratney. As a teenager he won local running and cycling races and decided to concentrate on cycling. However, in 1930 he was involved in a head-on bicycle crash with other racing cyclists and, after being in a coma for three days, doctors predicted he would never cycle again. Three months after the accident he was back on his bike and in 1934 he won fastest time in the 120 mile Taranaki Round-the-Mountain Race. His road racing career peaked in 1937 when he beat the great Harry Watson in the New Zealand 100-mile Road Championships. Perhaps the most fascinating thing about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Parata
Wiremu Te Kākākura Parata, also known as Wi Parata ( 1830s – 29 September 1906) was a New Zealand politician of Māori and Pākehā descent. During the 1870s he was a member of the House of Representatives and a Minister of the Crown. Early years, and farming Parata was the son of Metapere Waipunahau, a Māori woman of high status, and George Stubbs, a whaler and trader from Australia. His grandfather Te Rangi Hīroa and his great-uncle Te Pēhi Kupe were leading rangatira amongst the Te Āti Awa and Ngāti Toa iwi who had settled along the Kapiti Coast. After Stubbs drowned in a boating accident off Kapiti Island in 1838, Parata and his brother were taken by their mother to the pā at Kenakena, where he grew up. In 1852, he married his second wife, Unaiki; nothing is known of his first marriage. Parata and Unaiki are thought to have had eleven children. In the late 1860s, Parata became a farmer, and owned about 1,600 sheep by the mid-1870s. He was, by then, relatively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Panapa
Wiremu Netana Panapa (1898–1970) was a New Zealand Anglican Suffragan Bishop in the second half of the 20th century. He was born on 7 June 1898, educated at St John's College, Auckland and ordained in 1921. After curacies in the Diocese of Auckland he was its Māori Diocesan Missioner. In 1937 he was a selector for the New Zealand Māori rugby league team along with Jim Rukutai, and Ernie Asher. During World War II he was a Chaplain to the New Zealand Forces. When peace returned he held incumbencies in Rotorua and Taupō before being appointed Suffragan Bishop of Aotearoa in 1951. In the 1954 New Year Honours, Panapa was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established .... He retired in 1967 (before 29 October) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Neera Te Awaitaia
Wiremu Neera Te Awaitaia (c.1796 – 27 April 1866) was a Māori chief in New Zealand during first contact with European traders, the 1820s Musket Wars up to the 1860s New Zealand Wars. Born in or around 1796 into the Waikato Tribe of Ngāti Māhanga, he has been described as a "friend of Pākehā and a Chief of great influence" in the region of Raglan, New Zealand. He witnessed the coming of Christianity to Māoridom (specifically the Wesleyan missionaries to Raglan, James and Mary Wallis) in the mid-1830s, the sale of native land to the first European settlers, and the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in the 1840s. Te Awaitaia also witnessed the Māori King Movement in the 1850s, and the New Zealand Wars in the 1860s. He died on 27 April 1866. The name "Wiremu Neera" is the Maori phonetic rendering of the English name "William Naylor", which Te Awaitaia (his original name) took for himself to mark his conversion to Christianity in 1836. The monument that stands in Ragla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamiora Wiremu Maioha
Hamiora Wiremu Maioha, OBE (21 September 1888 – 30 January 1963) was a New Zealand interpreter, farmer and community leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāpuhi iwi. He was born in Waimamaku, Northland, New Zealand, on 21 September 1888. In the 1963 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 1963 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to ''The Lon ..., Maioha was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the Māori people. References 1888 births 1963 deaths New Zealand farmers Interpreters Ngāpuhi people New Zealand Māori farmers New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century translators {{Māori-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Maihi Te Rangikaheke
Wiremu Maihi Te Rangikaheke (?–1896) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader, scholar and public servant. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngati Rangiwewehi iwi. He was born in Puhirua or Te Awahou in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... References 1896 deaths New Zealand public servants New Zealand Māori public servants Ngāti Rangiwewehi people Year of birth missing {{NewZealand-gov-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
