Mohi Turei: na tuhinga i roto i te reo Mori

(Paperback, New edition)

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First published in 1996, Mohi Turei: na tuhinga i roto i te reo Mori is the collected writings in te reo Mori of Mohi Turei (circa 18301914), Ngti Porou leader, scholar and Anglican minister. Mohi Turei is thought to have been born about 1830 and was brought up at Te Kautuku near Rangitukia in the Waiapu district. During the conflicts on the East Coast of the North Island in the 1860s and in the following decades, he became a tribal leader, especially in the Waiapu district, where he lived almost all his life. Turei was celebrated as a composer of haka, as an orator, as a writer and a notable carver. He was consulted by Samuel Williams and Elsdon Best on Mori traditions and language. This new edition of Mohi Turei: na tuhinga i roto i te reo Mori is one of four new editions of essential reo Mori texts released in 2024 by Te Herenga Waka University Press, in collaboration with Te Takarangi, a national programme celebrating mtauranga Mori through Mori-authored works of non-fiction.

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Wiremu Kaa was a kaumtua of Ngti Porou, Twhakairiora, Te Whnau a Kahu, Hunaara, Ngti Hoko, Hinepare, Ngi Tne, and Takimoana. He worked as a teacher, civil servant in the Education Department, Mori Education Lecturer at Victoria University, publisher and editor. Wiremu was active in the Anglican Church, and a broadcaster in te reo Mori for Te Upoko o Te Ika Radio. Jossie Mateohorere (Te Ohorere) Kaa was a Ngti Porou teacher, editor, writer, and Mori language expert. Over a long career she worked on numerous Mori 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 Mori as part of the Ng Kete Krero series produced by Huia Publishers. Together, Jossie and Wiremu worked on the first all-Mori 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 have edited three collections in te reo Mori with Te Herenga Waka Press, new editions of which are forthcoming in 2024.