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Interview with Sophie Kaa
Date: 24 Nov 1988
From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project
By: Kaa, Sophie, 1903-1992
Reference: OHInt-0048/10
Description: Sophie Kaa was born in October 1903 in Iwitea, Wairoa, the eldest daughter in a family of twelve. Discusses her whakapapa descending from Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti, Ngati Kahungunu and Rongomai Wahine on her father's side and Rongowhakaata on her mother's side. Talks about her father, a faith healer who believed in a Christian God, and chairman of the Maori Council in the early 1900s. Talks about the family's Anglican religion and her father's attitude towards the Ringatu and Ratana religions. Describes his high moral values, emphasis placed on education and attitudes to his daughters' upbringing. Talks about sleeping arrangements on the marae. Recalls her father teaching his daughters how to fight physically. Talks about her grandparents and mentions that her maternal grandmother, an ariki from Whangara, was a descendant of Porourangi. Describes her fascination with the English language, a planned arranged marriage and her marriage to an English speaking Maori who became minister at Tirau College. Describes her mother's nursing of flu victims in 1918 and the effect of the flu on Maori society. Talks about her scholarship to the Church of England school Hukarere College and changing her name. Discusses the importance of cultivating and retaining the Maori language and integrating it into the education system. Talks about her involvement with the Maori Women's Welfare League, spirituality, tapu and tikanga with particular reference to menstruation, education on menstruation, women giving up their babies, the lack of birth control and Maori forms of abortion. Talks about her own twelve children, their education and career choices and contemporary attitudes to elders. Language - (small amount of Maori) Venue - Gisborne : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004132-OHC-004135 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1632 and OHDL-000571.
Interview with Hinetiurangi (Tiu) Pahau
Date: 14 April 1993
From: Hiruharama Oral History Project
By: Pahau, Hinetiurangi, 1919-1999
Reference: OHInt-0099-10
Description: Hinetiurangi (Tiu) Pahau gives details of her Rongowhakaata and Ngati Maru background, noting that her mother was a granddaughter of Tamihana Ruatapu. Talks about being born and growing up at Manutuke, attending Manutuke Primary school and then being sent to Gisborne Girls High School. Describes the experience of being the first Maori from Manutuke to go to that school and being the only Maori at the school during her time there. Details her employment after school at the Department of Maori Affairs and going nursing until she had a child. Describes Gisborne at the outbreak of WWII. Gives details of her sister Hinehou Te Kani and her marriage to Parekura Tureia. Speaks at length about Parekura, his schooling, rugby playing, relationship with Apirana Ngata, his role in the Territorial force before the war and then in the Maori Battalion as the first Maori commander of C Company. Describes the farewell parade in Gisborne and dance at Poho-o-Rawiri for the main body of the C Company, noting that Tuini Ngawai sang. Details Parekura being killed, names others who died during the war and describes the tangi held for the soliders and for Parekura. Talks about meeting her husband Watene Pahau, members of his family, his being awarded a Military Medal, moving to Whakapaurangi with her son Wally, names her children with Watene and details Watene's employment. Notes that her sons were sent to Presbyterian College at Ruatahuna to get farming education. Describes living at Matahiia Station and later at Taumarunui where she worked for probation and as a prison welfare office before retiring. Gives her views on education, notes that Peter Gordon has completed her whakapapa and recounts memories of friends and growing up at Manutuke. Talks about a car accident and her present health. Venue - Gisborne Interviewer(s) - Monty Soutar Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005815, OHC-005816a Tape numbers - OHLC-002887, OHLC-002888 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1222A. Search dates: 1993