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Story: Ngā tamariki

Kuia and whāngai mokopuna

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Kuia and whāngai mokopuna

This cheerful girl from Kōtare in the Far North was brought up by her mother’s parents, and called them Mum and Dad.

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Reference: Joan Metge, New growth from old: the Whanau in the modern world. Wellington: Victoria Uni Press, 1995

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Rawinia Higgins me Paul Meredith, Ngā tamariki – European influence on Māori childhoods, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30554/kuia-and-whangai-mokopuna (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rawinia Higgins me Paul Meredith, published 3 May 2011.