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Koroua George Hori Thrupp Age 87 - Pt.2
Season 1 , Episode 16George Hori Thrupp Age 87. The mother of Koroua Hori, Paraora Te Puhikura, is his whakapapa connection to Ngāi Tūhoe. On his father’s side he is a descendant of the Von Thrupp family who worked on sailing ships and migrated from their homelands in Germany. They went to Edinburgh, Brisbane, Tasmania, and eventually to Thames, New Zealand where his settler koroua worked building ships from kauri, cultivating the land, and mining for coal. -
Koroua Tiemi Matewai Whaanga Age 83
Season 1 , Episode 23The Māori world view shared by Koroua Tiemi Matewai Whaanga provides glimpses into the lives of people who grew up in Nūhaka and his working years in the freezing works and in prison service. -
Koroua Rangikotuku Ritai Age 87
Season 1 , Episode 22The Maori world view shared by Koroua Rangikotuku Ritai is uniquely significant because it offers insights and perspectives nurtured from the heart of Parihaka. -
Koroua Hekenukumai Puhipi Age 82
Season 1 , Episode 9Koroua Hekenuku establishes whakapapa connections to his tupuna Tarutaru and his birth on 1 August 1932 at his papakāinga Pukepoto located at the starting point of Te One Roa a Tohe. We learn that he attended the local school, did not enjoy learning literacy and left school on his fifteenth birthday. -
Koroua Erika Edwards Age 80
Season 1 , Episode 24Erika Edwards, 80. The Māori world view shared by Koroua Erika Edwards is made more interesting as we see the full effects of educational practices that punished children for speaking te reo and its impact on his life as a young adult. However, his self-belief and trust in whānau-based traditions helps him to recover and live a full and active life of service to others. -
Koroua Taka Walker Age 80
Season 1 , Episode 25The Māori world view shared by Koroua Takapātai Mete Waaka is one filled with the industry and lifestyle of work, faith, and love for others over time that offers the viewer new insights to his interesting and rewarding life. -
Koroua Joe Malcolm Age 87
Season 1 , Episode 26The Māori world view shared by Koroua Joe Malcolm is one filled with his recollections and stories as a student and also as a professional teacher in many different towns and communities, his love of sport and recreation, and his skill as a natural musician. What an interesting life to stimulate the viewer in recognition of a precious elder who continues even today to give of his energies and his loving soul. Noho ora mai e te koroua rangatira. -
Koroua Paraone (Brown) Turei Age 89
Season 1 , Episode 5Paraone (Brown) Turei, 89, is a servant of the Christian faith and the Māori race. In wartime he also served as a soldier in Egypt. Iwi: Ngāti Porou, Whānau ā Apanui. -
Koroua Eru Paenga Age 85
Season 1 , Episode 7Tonight: Kawhena (Eru) Paenga, 85 years old. Like the people of the local Te Horo district, his parents farmed dairy cows and sent the milk for processing at the Ngāti Porou Dairy Factory located in Ruatorea. We also learn that he had a foster brother and that they both lived with their grandparents in a humble, clay-floor kāuta. -
Koroua Paora Whaanga Age 84
Season 1 , Episode 4The speaker tonight is Koroua Paora Whaanga, 84, a Company D veteran and descendent of Ngāti Kahungunu and Rongowhakaata. -
Koroua Martin Waetford Age 89
Season 1 , Episode 3Tonight the focus is on the interesting life of Koroua Martin Waetford, 89, a navy man, and later on he joined the air force. -
Koroua Wiremu (Willy) Kaa Age 80
Season 1 , Episode 2Welcome to the world of Ngāti Porou Koroua Wiremu Kaa, 80, born at Maungapōhatu 11 August 1934. -
Koroua Pio Jacobs (Hakopa) Age 82
Season 1 , Episode 1Featuring 82 year old Koroua Pio Jacobs who was born in Pawarenga, a little rural place in the Far North. -
Koroua Thomas Murray Age 87
Season 1 , Episode 18Koroua Tom (87) remembers the times of his rugby playing days. We learn that he was an effective front row forward of the team who represented Bay of Plenty and travelled to games in Papamoa, Paeroa, Northland and Auckland at the time of the famous Brooke brothers and John Kirwan. He also opposed some famous international players such as Springbok, Jarpa Bekka in 1956 who admired Koroua Tom’s strength as a player. -
Koroua Te Ariki Morehu Age 82
Season 1 , Episode 20The Maori world view shared by Koroua Te Ariki Morehu is one that offers glimpses into the full and interesting life of a gentle yet worldly elder. -
Koroua Anaru Kingi Age 91
Season 1 , Episode 21Koroua Anaru (91) traces his whakapapa links to the early days of his Koroua tuarua a Wiremu Kīngi Tūtahuarangi who traveled throughout the region from Opotiki to Tūranga and was involved in early conflicts including the pursuits to capture Te Kooti. His tipuna was also caught in a web of deceit by his association with Carl Volkner who was sending reports of anti-government activity by Māori directly to the New Zealand Governor, Thomas Browne and McLean. -
Koroua George Hori Thrupp Age 87 - Pt.1
Season 1 , Episode 15George Hori Thrupp Age 87. The mother of Koroua Hori, Paraora Te Puhikura, is his whakapapa connection to Ngāi Tūhoe. On his father’s side he is a descendant of the Von Thrupp family who worked on sailing ships and migrated from their homelands in Germany. They went to Edinburgh, Brisbane, Tasmania, and eventually to Thames, New Zealand where his settler koroua worked building ships from kauri, cultivating the land, and mining for coal. -
Koroua Billy Messant Age 88
Season 1 , Episode 12Age 88. Koroua Billy Messant provides a unique glimpse into an interesting life from his childhood in Rāwāhi, his working life as a very young boy in Edgecumbe and other nearby areas, and his enlisting in the Air Force to serve overseas. He also has a legacy of twenty four children from three marriages. -
Koroua Boy Biddle Age 84
Season 1 , Episode 10Age 84. Koroua Boy Biddle reveals different Māori world views from family birthing practices, close family bonds with grandparents, career opportunities through local and boarding schools, tikanga kawe mate, cooperative farming practices, and the strong romantic commitment of two young people. -
Koroua Hohepa Mason Age 81
Season 1 , Episode 11Age 81. Koroua Hohepa Mason provides an insight into his Māori world view. We learn of whānau practices and protocols, of his vocational pathway as a school teacher and as an elder we learn of his leadership qualities. -
Koroua Carlo Smith Age 80
Season 1 , Episode 19Koroua Carlo Smith (80) is one of great fortitude and energy, of a driving force of commitment to work, and an intelligence to discover and explore new horizons by undertaking new learning. What an extraordinary life and what an inspiration for those who hear these stories – noho ora mai e te rangatira, noho ora mai i roto i te rangimārie. -
Koroua Enoka Ngatai Age 82
Season 1 , Episode 13Koroua Enoka Ngatai, 82, remembers that horses were a huge part of their recreational fun, especially breaking in wild horses in the surf, and racing the horses in betting competitions. -
Koroua Tiwi Black Age 84
Season 1 , Episode 14Tiwi Black, 84. Koroua Tiwi was born under a tree that was growing behind Te Mahurehure marae in the midst of a horse betting session of women that included her mother and whaea whāngai, Tītoki, who named him Tiwi (Divy) to celebrate their winnings. -
Koroua Taukiri John Tawhiao Age 93
Season 1 , Episode 17Koroua Taukiri was born in Tirohanga, Opotiki, the son of Te Whaanga Tawhiao and Paeroa Ranapia who married before the outbreak of World War I. His mother would travel from Matakana to Tirohanga to have her seven children and at his birth Koroua Taukiri’s parents returned to Matakana where his mother was teaching but left him to be raised by his aunt. -
Koroua Wirangi Pera Age 84
Season 1 , Episode 6Wirangi Pera, 84, reveals the importance and influence of the Ringatū Church in his daily life. -
Koroua Karauria Keepa Age 89
Season 1 , Episode 8Age 89. Koroua Karauria shares that he was born at Taiwhakaea, Te Karaka where he was raised by his kuia Te Mihinui as a whāngai while still living in close proximity to his parents and his twenty other siblings.
