Ngoi PÄ“whairangi
Ngoi Pēwhairangi ( full name is Te Kumeroa Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi, born December 29, 1921 in Tokomaru Bay, † January 29, 1985 ibid ) was a famous New Zealand teacher and promoter of the language and culture of Māori and writer of many songs. She was a prominent person in the Māori renaissance of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Life
From 1938 to 1941 she attended the Hukarere Maori Girls School in Napier. She was a good hockey player. After leaving school she played for the team from Marotiri Tokamaru Bay.
Ngoi, the niece of the composer and Fördererin was the language of the Māori, Tuini Ngawai. In the early 1940s Ngoi traveled as part of a fundraising campaign for the World War with the concert group Hokowhitu - ā- Tū New Zealand. Your aunt, who had founded this group, she taught in the performance of Kapa Haka, she could also use as part of their hockey game. after her education, she returned to tokamaru Bay and began working in the sheep shearing team her aunt.
On February 3, 1945, they married in Waiparapara the marae workers Rikirangi Ben Pēwhairangi of the Tokomaru Bay. Her only biological child was a son, Terewai Pēwhairangi, additionally they took several drawing children.
Ngoi taught the language of the Māori and ran from 1973 for three years the Māori Club at Gisborne Girls' High School. In 1974 she also began to run a course for Māori Studies at the University of Waikato, Gisborne. 1977 called Kara Puketapu, the new secretary of the Department of Māori Affairs, they support the project Tū Tangata. This was aimed at vulnerable Māori youth in the large cities and tried to bring them in connection with their Iwi. She worked as a counselor for the Department and was involved in the establishment of Kohanga reo movement, which is aimed at the education of Māori in their language.
From 1978 she was a consultant of the National Council of Adult Education. In this capacity, she promoted nationwide language and culture of Māori, especially in the countryside. She was in 1985 with Katerina Mataira founder of the building on a television and book series Te reo Māori program for learning.
Among the New Zealanders of European descent, it is best known as a writer of the song Poi E, in a receptacle with Dalvanius Prime and the Patea Maori Club led the New Zealand pop charts in 1984.
She died in 1985 in Tokamaru Bay. Her funeral ( tangihanga ) was held in Pākirikiri Marae. One of Timoti Karetu composed for her funeral song ( waiata tangi ) was a few years the detection piece of Kapa Haka group of Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago.