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… held on 1 November (or 1 December in some areas). Te Haahi Rātana – the Rātana Church The founder of the Rātana Church The leader of the Rātana Church, Tahupōtiki … Ringatū and Rātana …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana brought together the dispossessed remnant of many … Rātana Church – Te Haahi Rātana …
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… Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana came to prominence as a powerful Māori spiritual … and equality based on the Treaty of Waitangi. Early life Rātana was born on 25 January 1873 at Te Kawau, near Bulls. … political direction. Mixing religion and politics Te Haahi Ratana (the Rātana Church), representing Tahupōtiki Wiremu …
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Part of story: Rātana Church – Te Haahi Rātana
… Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana was the founder of a Māori religious movement which, … Kooti Arikirangi , Pāora Te Pōtangaroa and Mere Rikiriki . Rātana is widely believed to have been born on 25 January 1873 at Te Kawau, near Bulls. His father was Wiremu Rātana, also known as Wiremu Kōwhai or Urukohai, and his …
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… Haami Tokouru Rātana, usually known as Toko, was born at Parewanui, on the … He was the eldest of seven children of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana and his first wife, Te Urumanaao Ngāpaki (also known … sent to school at Whangaehu and was fully bilingual. Toko Rātana enlisted in 1915 and served for four years in the New …
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… Rio and her family visited a sick aunt at Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana ’s centre, later called Rātana Pā. After a long stay her family returned home, … poi and waiata troupes that accompanied the Māngai, as Rātana was known, around New Zealand. In 1924 she was one of …
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… to enrol either on the Māori or the general electoral roll. Rātana Rātana began as a pan-Māori religious movement led by the charismatic prophet Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana. The movement soon became deeply involved in … Rātana, Labour and Mana Motuhake …
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Part of story: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties
… Puhi-o-Aotea Rātahi was the third president of the Rātana church. She was born Ērina Wiremu Rātana, probably in 1898 or 1899, at Ōrākeinui, which in later years became the Rātana pā settlement. Her father, Wiremu Rātana, had …
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… The Rātana cosmology The Rātana Church embraces other Christian denominations and expresses tolerance towards other faiths. The Rātana cosmology includes the Christian trinity; te Matua, … in Māori and containing prayers and hymns (many composed by Rātana), is used in all church services. Symbols The main …
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Part of story: Rātana Church – Te Haahi Rātana
… in 1916. About 1920 Moko was converted by Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana to his movement, and for over a decade was never far from Rātana's side. If Rātana was the mouthpiece (Māngai) of God, Moko was the …
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… Maata (Martha) Rātana, later better known as Te Reo T. W. R. Hura, was one … of Te Urumanaao Ngāpaki and her husband, Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana , who was to found the Rātana church. She was born on 16 January 1904 in the …
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… he died in January 1926. Later that year, on 2 December, at Rātana, she married her brother-in-law, Hoani Hākaraia Te … She must by then have been a follower of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana , the faith healer and religious leader, as the … minister was a registered apostle or minister of the Rātana church. Ngāpiki and Hoani Hākaraia had no children of …
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… had become attracted to the teachings of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana , the religious visionary and faith healer. Paikea began to take a prominent role in the Rātana movement in 1924. He was appointed to the first Rātana federation's council set up before Rātana’s departure …
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… among Ngāti Maniapoto, Piupiu came into contact with the Rātana faith. With Tupu Taingakawa and her uncle Haunui … among the family – she was the leader of a strong pocket of Rātana adherents within the King movement. Piupiu presented herself to Rātana as one who could draw Te Rata into the Rātana …
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… Iwi (just north of Whanganui), where she led the movement. Rātana The most famous spiritual leader to whom Mere … Rikiriki gave guidance was her nephew, Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana. Although raised in Rangitīkei, Rātana founded his religious movement at Ngā Wairiki. In …
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Part of story: Ngāti Apa
… and was to become the first South Island apostle of T. W. Rātana . John Tregerthen's mother, Emma Driver, derived her … Solomon became a follower of the spiritual leader T. W. Rātana, and induced his mother, Mīria, who was suffering … healer. Following her cure, the Solomon family remained at Rātana pā. Eruera and his family visited them in 1921. His …
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… but Māwhete took only 1,287 votes to Pōmare's 4,010. The Rātana movement did not contest the seat and it appears that … stand, but was thought to have had a hand in drafting the Rātana programme, which closely resembled Labour’s Māori policy. Rātana candidates polled second in each of the four Māori …
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… grouping of Ngata, Buck, Pōmare and Carroll. Gifts from Rātana In 1936 T. W. Rātana, leader of the Rātana movement, placed a number of highly symbolic objects …
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Part of story: Ngā māngai – Māori representation
… Kākahi , Te Whiti-o-Rongomai , Hipa Te Maihāroa , and T. W. Rātana . In her adult years she spent time at Parihaka with … the future prophet was her close kinsman, Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana, then working as a farmhand on family land. She had … Rikiriki was instrumental in laying the foundations for Rātana's teachings. With her counsel he was strengthened, …
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… were in Whanganui city – a similar proportion to Pākehā. Rātana movement The Rātana movement began after its founder, Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana, had visions in 1918 which led him to become a …
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Part of story: Whanganui region