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Rangitīaria Dennan – Guide Rangi

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Rangitīaria Dennan – Guide Rangi

Guide Rangi accompanies Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1943. Rangitīaria Dennan was from Ngāti Tarāwhai and was a guide at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, for over 40 years. She married William Francis Te Aonui Dennan, the only son of another famous guide, Maggie Papakura.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

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Paul Diamond, Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism – 20th-century Māori tourism, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23720/rangitiaria-dennan-guide-rangi (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Diamond, published 2 March 2010.