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Kaumātua: Simon Snowden

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Kaumātua: Simon Snowden

Kaumātua Simon (Haimona) Snowden of Te Rarawa gives a whaikōrero (speech) at Waitangi on Waitangi Day, 1988. He was one of a number of highly regarded kaumātua of Te Tai Tokerau (Northland). 

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-Ethnology-Maori lands from 1976-05

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Rawinia Higgins and Paul Meredith, Kaumātua – Māori elders – Kaumātua and their role, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28352/kaumatua-simon-snowden (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rawinia Higgins and Paul Meredith, published 11 April 2011.