Donna awatere huata biography for kids
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Donna Awatere Huata (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Hine, Ngapuhi) has shared a lifetime of experiences with the audience at the Indigenous Nurses Aotearoa Conference 2021.
Awatere Huata delivered an extraordinary, brutally honest and inspiring speech, while dressed in black from head to toe – including a cowboy hat.
“You’re here to share your wairua, to inspire one another, to organise… so you can go home refreshed, not because of anything anyone said up here, but because of how you connect together.”
She thanked the audience for its work to help Māori through a system not designed by them, for them or with them.
“And for those of you who work for Māori providers… let’s all get behind Kerri [Nuku, NZNO kaiwhakahaere], and push for pay equity. It’s not an accident that you are paid less.”
Māori nurses faced challenges working as a minority in the Pākehā system, but were forced to “suck it up” so they could pay
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This is an enthralling and moving memoir by a woman who has been at the forefront of Māori activism for decades. I remember Donna from feminist events in the 1980s, and for her radical essays on Māori Sovereignty in Broadsheet magazine. Her upbringing was strongly Māori, and she tells how when she was a child she only ever met people who were related to her.
Her father, a veteran of the Māori Battalion, spoke Latin fluently, and was a huge influence, although he was later convicted of murder and sent to prison. It was fascinating to read of the Treaty Protest in 1968 which Donna’s father organised. There were 20,000 Māori there, but because it was peaceful, and all in örtinfusion Reo, the media missed it completely.
Donna demonstrates that when working for social change action fryst vatten more important than talking or writing articles. This slim volume (109 pages) gives an honest account of our country’s recent history and deserves to be part of the history curriculum for all st
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The feminist who roared: Donna Awatere Huata on her legacy
How will history remember Donna Awatere Huata? Saraid Cameron hopes it’s for her feminism.
Donna Awatere Huata will be speaking on a panel discussing the #MeToo movement at LATE at Auckland Museum on onsdag på engelska 15 August.
I spent much of last summer (for theatre-geek reasons) in the New Zealand Women’s Archives, an almost forgotten collection at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. It’s an unedited, alphabetised collection of newspaper and magazine clippings and handwritten biographies of New Zealand women; they don’t have to be famous or important to man it into this collection, their stories just need to be written down. This was where I found Donna Awatere Huata.
I remembered her a little. Her name and her sunglasses were in my brain somewhere, along with the famous fraud. There were big gaps.
Awatere Huata started as an opera singer, training with the same teacher as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, no big dea