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- Jean_Puketapu abstract "Jean Gloria Edith Puketapu or Jean Puketapu-Waiwai QSO (26 July 1931 - 31 July 2012) was a Ngāi Tūhoe Māori language activist and co-founder of the first kōhanga reo.One of thirteen children of Haami and Te Ngaroahiahi Waiwai, shearers in the Ureweras near Lake Waikaremoana. She was beaten at Kokako Native School at Tuai for speaking Māori language and at home for speaking English, but obtained a scholarship to Hukarere College in Napier. At the age of 18, she moved to Lower Hutt with her sister and her husband, who was the son of Rua Tapunui Kenana, the Maori prophet, faith healer and land rights activist.She and her sisters became active in the Te Aroha Hutt Valley Association, particularly in the double long poi. Her mother Te Ngaroahiahi was one of the Tuhoe kuia who worked on tokutoku panels for Arohanui ki te Tangata, whose construction was spearheaded by Ihaia (Paddy) Puketapu. Jean married Ihakara Puketapu, Paddy's son in 1956 and they moved to Wainuiomata. When Ikakara was at University of Chicago, Jean spent time in a project teaching women to read and write in a 'Negro ghetto'. When Ihakara returned from a posting to the New Zealand High Commission in London Jean started work at Wainuiomata College teaching Maori and then in 1981 the founding of the first kōhanga reo.In 1989 a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship allowed her to travel to Arizona and New Mexico, studying curriculum methods and systems in the Spanish and Pueblo Indian languages.In 1991 she was awarded a Queen's Service Order for community service. In 1995 she became a Justice of the Peace. In 2004 she received her Diploma in Early Childhood EducationTwo of her brothers, John and Bill, served in the 28th Māori Battalion".
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- Jean_Puketapu comment "Jean Gloria Edith Puketapu or Jean Puketapu-Waiwai QSO (26 July 1931 - 31 July 2012) was a Ngāi Tūhoe Māori language activist and co-founder of the first kōhanga reo.One of thirteen children of Haami and Te Ngaroahiahi Waiwai, shearers in the Ureweras near Lake Waikaremoana. She was beaten at Kokako Native School at Tuai for speaking Māori language and at home for speaking English, but obtained a scholarship to Hukarere College in Napier.".
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