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I whānau i te tau 1829 i Te Kautuku, takiwā o Waiapu. I mate i te 2 o Maehe 1914 i tana kāinga, i Rangitukia. He uri no te whānau a Ngāti Hokopū, arā, te Whānau ā Rerewa, te hapu o tana matua o Omanga. Ko Mākere Tangikuku tana whaea o Te Aitanga ā Mate o Whareponga.
I kuraina i Raukahikatea, a, no 1870 ka whakapākia hei pirihi mo tētahi taha o te rohe. Nāna hoki a Apirana Ngata i iriiri i runga i nga whakarite a Paratene.
He tangata mātau a ia ki te ao Māori, tōna reo me ōna tikanga. Na tāna mōhio ki te mau pene, ka maha āna tuhinga i te reo Māori. Nāna i tuhituhi ngā kōrero a Pita Kāpiti mo ētahi āhuatanga a te Maori.
Ka waimārie tātau i ēnei tuhinga, a, ko te ngākau whakawhetai kei te mīharo ki a Mohi.
This new edition of Mohi Turei: Āna tuhinga i roto 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. The other three titles are:
Apirana Turupa Ngata: Āna tuhinga i roto i te reo Maori
Ngaa mahi whakaari a Tiitokowaru
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 have edited three collections in te reo Māori with Te Herenga Waka University Press, new editions of which are published in 2024.
Cover design: Tane Morris
