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7. Occupation. Activist, historian, schoolteacher. Dame Whina Cooper ONZ DBE (9 December 1895 – 26 March 1994) was a respected kuia ( Māori elder), who worked for many years for the rights of her people, and particularly to improve the lot of Māori women.
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- Hōhepine Te Wake, 9 December 1895, Te Karaka, Hokianga, New Zealand
5 nov 2015 · Biography. Whina Cooper, of Te Rārawa, was born in northern Hokianga in 1895. She took part in local affairs and by the 1930s had become a leader of the northern Hokianga people. In 1932 she played an active role, with Apirana Ngata, in setting up Māori land development schemes in the region.
Te Rarawa woman of mana, teacher, storekeeper, community leader. This biography, written by Michael King, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 2000. It was translated into te reo Māori by the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team. Whina Cooper was born Hōhepine (Josephine) Te Wake at Te Karaka in northern ...
9 dic 2020 · Whina Cooper was renowned for her activism in fighting for Māori land rights. She was born in northern Hokianga on 9 December 1895. By the 1930s, she was a significant leader in northern Hokianga, and set up Māori land development schemes in the region with Apirana Ngata (an MP from 1905-1943).
4 feb 2022 · 64.1K subscribers. Subscribed. 814. 108K views 2 years ago. A biopic of the trailblazing female Māori leader, Dame Whina Cooper, whose extraordinary life saw her break gender boundaries,...
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Te Rārawa leader and woman of mana Dame Whina Cooper spent her whole life fighting for Māori land rights. As a 79-year old she led Māori land protest marchers as they walked from Te Hāpua (in the far north) to Parliament, arriving on 13 October 1975.
Whina Cooper leads land march to Parliament. 13 October 1975. Whina Cooper in Hamilton during the land march (Alexander Turnbull Library, PA7-15-18) About 5000 marchers arrived at Parliament and presented a petition signed by 60,000 people to Prime Minister Bill Rowling.
