Apirana Turupa Ngata Ana Tuhinga I Te Reo Maori

Description

First published in 1996, Apirana Turupa Ngata: Āna tuhinga i te reo Maori is the collected writings in te reo Māori of Sir Apirana Ngata – Ngāti Porou leader, land reformer, politician and scholar.

‘He tangata rongonui no Ngāti Porou. He tangata pūmau ki ngā tikanga o te ao Māori. Na āna mahi huahua i whakaatu tōna māia ki te kake ki ngā tini taumata o te ao whānui. Ko tēnei tāna koha ki a tātau. E koro, ka whakamoemiti ra te ngākau mo ēnei kupu āu ma ngā mokopuna e tipu ake nei.’

This new edition of Apirana Turupa Ngata: Āna tuhinga 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.

Author description

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.