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Tuini Ngāwai
Tuini Moetū Haangū Ngāwai (5 May 1910 – 12 August 1965) was a Māori people, Māori songwriter, performer, teacher, shearer and cultural adviser. Through contemporising Māori Māori music, waiata during World War II, Ngāwai contributed to the Māori renaissance. Biography Her iwi is Ngāti Porou and her hapū is Te Whanau a Ruataupare. Born at Tokomaru Bay, her twin sister died in infancy, and Moetū was given the name Tuini, a transliteration of twin. Ngāwai taught Māori culture in schools, leaving in 1946 to work as a shearing gang supervisor. Her niece Ngoi Pēwhairangi was also a composer. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa holds a photograph of Ngāwai and Ngoi Pewhairangi performing with Ngāwai's concert party Te Hokowhitu-ā-Tū. Performance work Tuini Ngāwai composed many songs using European tunes, to encourage Māori pride to raise morale among Māori at home and at the war. Her legacy is recognised by contemporary kapa haka performers and com ...
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Māori People
Māori () are the Indigenous peoples of Oceania, indigenous Polynesians, Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of Māori migration canoes, canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed Māori culture, a distinct culture, whose language, mythology, crafts, and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern Polynesian cultures. Some early Māori moved to the Chatham Islands, where their descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. Early contact between Māori and Europeans, starting in the 18th century, ranged from beneficial trade to lethal violence; Māori actively adopted many technologies from the newcomers. With the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted for a generation. Rising ten ...
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