First published in 1996, Apirana Turupa Ngata: Ana tuhinga i te reo Maori is the collected writings in te reo Maori of Sir Apirana Ngata - Ngati Porou leader, land reformer, politician and scholar.
He tangata rongonui no Ngāti Porou. He tangata pūmau ki nga tikanga o te ao Māori.
I kuraina ki Waiomatatini, ki Te Aute Kāreti, ki te whare wānanga hoki o Canterbury. Ko ia te Maori mātāmua kia pōtaetia ki nga tohu mātauranga o nga whare wānanga. I ū hoki i a ia nga tohu MA, LLB me te Honorary Doctorate, D Lit.
Na āna mahi huhua i whakaatu tōna kaha me tōna māia ki te kake ki nga tini taumata o te ao whānui.
I tu rawa ia hei mema pāremata, a, ko tāna tino mahi he kōkiri mo nga iwi Maori kia puta ai he oranga, he whakamārama hoki i te āhua o nga ture a te Kāwanatanga.
I tahuri a ia ki te whakatū marae. Nāna hoki i kōkiri kia tū he
whare ako i nga mahi whakairo kia puta ai nga tohunga whakatū whare whakairo.
Ko Nga Mōteatea a nga iwi i kohikohia e ia hei taonga ma
te motu.
Ko tēnei tāna koha ki a tātau. E koro, ka whakamoemiti ra te ngākau mo ēnei kupu āu ma nga mokopuna e tipu ake nei.
This new edition of Apirana Turupa Ngata: Āna tuhinga i roto i te reo Maori is one of four new editions of essential reo Māori texts released in 2024 by Te Herenga Waka University Press, in collaboration with Te Takarangi, a national programme celebrating mātauranga Māori through Māori-authored works of non-fiction. The other three titles are:
Nga kōrero a Reweti Kohere mā
Mohi Turei: Āna tuhinga i roto i te reo Maori
Ngaa mahi whakaari a Tiitokowaru
Wiremu Kaa was a kaumātua of Ngāti Porou, Tūwhakairiora, Te Whānau a Kahu, Hunaara, Ngāti Hoko, Hinepare, Ngāi Tāne, and Takimoana. He worked as a teacher, civil servant in the Education Department, Māori Education Lecturer at Victoria University, publisher and editor. Wiremu was active in the Anglican Church, and a broadcaster in te reo Māori for Te Upoko o Te Ika Radio.
Jossie Mateohorere (Te Ohorere) Kaa was a Ngāti Porou teacher, editor, writer, and Māori language expert. Over a long career she worked on numerous Māori publications and was also the coordinator for the Ngata Dictionary. She has authored short stories for children under the pen name Oho Kaa and has written levelled readers in Māori as part of the Ngā Kete Kōrero series produced by Huia Publishers.
Together, Jossie and Wiremu worked on the first all-Māori language dictionary, Tirohia Kimihia, with a team from Huia Publishers; this dictionary was a finalist in the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards reference category. They edited three collections in te reo Māori with Te Herenga Waka University Press, new editions of which are published in 2024.
Cover design: Tane Morris
Society and Social Sciences
Paperback
190 pages
H: 227mm W: 155mm