Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Pere may refer to: *Pere, Hungary, a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county * Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere (1937–2020), Māori New Zealand educationalist and spiritual leader *Wi Pere (1837–1915), a Māori Member of Parliament in New Zealand See also * Péré (other) Péré may refer to: * Péré, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime department * Péré, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department See also * Pere (other) Pere may refer to: *Pere, Hungary, a vi ...

Rose Pere
Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere (25 July 1937 – 13 December 2020) was a New Zealand educationalist, spiritual leader, Māori language advocate, academic and conservationist. Of Māori descent, she affiliated with the iwi Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Ruapani and Ngāti Kahungunu. Her influences spread throughout New Zealand in education and well-being and she was renowned on the international stage as an expert in indigenous knowledge. Biography Pere was born in Ruatahuna in the Bay of Plenty on 25 July 1937. For her first seven years she lived with her maternal grandparents southeast of Waikaremoana. From 1944 she attended Kokako Native School. Between 1956 and 1957 she went to Wellington Teachers' College and obtained a New Zealand Teacher's Certificate. For 33 years she worked in education including as a teacher and as a schools inspector for the Ministry of Education. She initiated total-immersion classes for children after they had come out of kōhanga reo (Māo ...
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Wi 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 mother ...
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