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multimediacreative · 3 months

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I am Hana project

We are excited to be sharing the media release for the I am Hana project. The I am Hana project is an important event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the presentation of the Māori language petition to parliament, and will be held from 30 August to 15 September in New Plymouth. Te reo and te ao Māori have been one of the reasons that initiated the creation of BiograView when discovering…

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wild-wombytch · 4 months

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Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, representing Te Pāti Māori, was appointed New Zealand's youngest MP at 21 (since James Stuart-Wortley, who was elected in the country's first general election in 1853 when he was aged 20 years and 7 months).

During her maiden speech in December 2023, Maipi-Clarke criticised the National-led coalition government, claiming that it had "attacked my whole world from every corner." She identified health, the environment, water, land, natural resources and children as key areas of disagreement with the Government. She performed a haka for said maiden speech :

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Maipi-Clarke has ancestry in Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Te Āti Awa, and Ngāi Tahu. The broadcaster Potaka Maipi is her father. She is the grand-niece of Māori language activist Hana Te Hemara. Taitimu Maipi, whose activism contributed to the removal of the Captain Hamilton statue in 2020, is her grandfather. Wi Katene, the first Māori MP to be appointed to the Executive Council, was her great-great-great-great-grandfather

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shenhuang · 4 years

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Sydney Keepa Jackson (1939 – 3 September 2007) was a prominent Māori activist, trade unionist and leader.

Biography: Sydney Keepa Jackson, of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Porou descent, was educated at Nelson College from 1952 to 1956. He first came to prominence at the University of Auckland, where he gained an MA. He was the chairman of the Māori Students Association, and then was a founder of Ngā Tamatoa. He was strongly involved in supporting Tino Rangatiratanga, the revival of the Māori language, and the Māori protest movement in general.

He was the son of the All Black Everard Jackson, and grandson of New Zealand national rugby league team representative Frederick Stanley Jackson. He played representative rugby union for Wellington in 1959 and 1960, and was a New Zealand Māori trialist. He was active from 1968 against apartheid, particularly New Zealand tours of South Africa.

In the 1970s Jackson was one of the founding members of Ngā Tamatoa, a Maori activist group. During this period he and Ngā Tamatoa were influenced by the works of the American Black Panther Party members such as Eldridge Cleaver and Stokely Carmichael.

Jackson was deeply involved in the trade union movement in the 1980s, as a field officer and then as secretary of the Clerical Workers Union for 17 years.

He was also the chairperson of Te Kupenga o Hoturoa - the first Māori sponsored primary healthcare organisation; a Director of Te Roopu Huihuinga Hauora, a Māori healthcare organisation, and built up Turuki Healthcare as its CEO.

Jackson was first married to the late Hana Te Hemara, and was survived by his second wife Deirdre Nehua and his eight children. He was the brother of Moana Jackson.

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multimediacreative · 3 months

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Ngā Tamatoa

Last night, as part of the I am Hana project, the first panel discussion of Ngā Tamatoa members took place at the TSB Showplace in New Plymouth, hosted by well known Māori TV presenter, Oriini Kaipara. The opening of the event was held mainly in te reo Māori, but morphed into mostly English with te reo Māori used on and off during the evening. It was later closed off in full te reo and…

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