Rose Pere

Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere CBE (25 July 1937 – 13 December 2020) was a New Zealand educationalist, spiritual leader, Māori language advocate, academic and conservationist. Of Māori descent, she affiliated with the iwi Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Ruapani and Ngāti Kahungunu. Her influences spread throughout New Zealand in education and well-being and she was renowned on the international stage as an expert in indigenous knowledge.

Biography

Pere was born in Ruatahuna in the Bay of Plenty on 25 July 1937.[1][2] For her first seven years she lived with her maternal grandparents southeast of Waikaremoana. From 1944 she attended Kokako Native School. Between 1956 and 1957 she went to Wellington Teachers' College and obtained a New Zealand Teacher's Certificate. For 33 years she worked in education including as a teacher and as a schools inspector for the Ministry of Education. She initiated total-immersion classes for children after they had come out of kōhanga reo (Māori language immersion pre-school).[3][4][5] Her educational influence included nursing with "with holistic ways of looking at health".[6]

Pere represented New Zealand in 1975 at the United Nations International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City.[3] In the 1980s and 1990s Pere published books and curriculum. Her books Ako and Te Wheke have had lasting impact. In later years Pere worked with many people sharing her knowledge about plants, living with nature, and healing.[4][7]

A well-known saying of Pere's is: "He atua, he tangata. We are both beautifully divine and beautifully human."[4]

Honours and awards

In 1972, Pere was named as Young Maori Woman of the Year.[1] She was honoured by the Cherokee Nation in 1984 as White Eagle Medicine Woman Of Peace,[8] and in 1990 she received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal for her contribution to New Zealand education.[9]

In the 1996 New Year Honours, Pere was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to Māori education.[10] Later in 1996, she was conferred with an honorary doctorate in literature by Victoria University of Wellington.[11]

Death

Pere died peacefully at her home in Waikaremoana on 13 December 2020.[4][12] She was buried next to her husband Joseph Pere at Rongopai Marae, near Gisborne.[13] Her three-day tangi across three marae from Wairoa to Tūranga-Nui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne) was covered on national television by the Māori TV news programme,Te Ao.[14]

Selected works
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  • Ako: Concepts and learning in the Maori tradition (1982) University of Waikato, Dept. of Sociology[15]
  • Oxford Maori picture dictionary = He pukapuka kupuāhua Maori, University of Waikato, co-author Peter Cleave. Dept. of Sociology. 4 editions published between 1978 and 1997 in English. Picture dictionary which illustrates over 3,000 Maori words
  • Te wheke : a celebration of infinite wisdom, C. Gunderson. 8 editions published between 1991 and 2009 in English
  • Te Whariki : he whariki matauranga mo nga mokopuna o Aotearoa = national early childhood curriculum guidelines in New Zealand (1992) Tamati Reedy; Tilly Reedy; Tuki Nepe; Rangimarie Rose Pere; Vapi Kupenga;
  • The Te Kohanga Reo National Trust : review of trust operations (1990)

References
  1. "Dr Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere". SOUL PLACES MOVIE. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  2. "Death search: registration number 2020/32944". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  3. "Rangimarie Turuki Lambert Rose Pere". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 19 January 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  4. "Poroporoaki Dr Rose Pere". Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  5. "Teaching te reo and kura kaupapa". Nga Taonga The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  6. "Te Rūnanga mourns the passing of tōhuna tipua Dr Rose Pere". New Zealand Nurses Organisation. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  7. "Dr Rose Pere, spiritual leader and academic, dies age 83". RNZ. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  8. "About Rose". Ao Ako Global Learning. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  9. "Minister Acknowledges The Passing Of Dr Rangimarie Rose Pere | Scoop News". Scoop. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  10. "New Year honours list 1996". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 30 December 1995. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  11. "Honorary graduates and Hunter fellowships". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  12. "Spiritual leader Dr Rose Pere has died, aged 83". Stuff. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  13. "Rose Pere will have lasting influence". Waatea News. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  14. "Dr Rangimarie Rose Pere laid to rest". Māori Television. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  15. Pere, Rangimarie Rose (1 January 1994). "Ako : concepts and learning in the Māori tradition". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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