Ngapare Hopa

Hopa in 2008

Ngapare Kaihina Hopa MNZM (1935–30 April 2024[1]) was a Māori academic of Waikato Tainui descent.

Early life and education

Hopa attended Gordonton School in Gordonton.[2] Later she moved to Auckland to attend Queen Victoria School and Epsom Girls’ Grammar.[2]

Hopa later became the first Māori woman to complete a D.Phil degree from the University of Oxford.[2][3][4]

Academic career

Hopa participated as a researcher at the University of Waikato in completing the research that informed the Waikato Raupatu claim.

Hopa headed the Māori Studies department at the University of Auckland.[5][6]

Service

Beginning in 1989, while she was a senior research fellow at Waikato, Hopa became a member of the Waitangi Tribunal. She retired from the tribunal in 1993.[7]

Death

Hopa died on 30 April 2024 at the age of 88.[1][8]

Awards and honours

In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hopa was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori.[9]

In 2011 Hopa was recognised for her contribution to Māori arts by Creative New Zealand, receiving its Te Waka Toi awards.[10][11]

Hopa's collaboration with Jennifer Curnow and Jane McRae, Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering History Language & Politics in the Maori-Language Newspapers was included as part of the Te Takarangi Significant Maori non-fiction publications in 2017.[12] The list is a collaboration between Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga and The Royal Society of New Zealand to celebrate Maori thinkers, writers, and authors since the foundation of the Royal Society.[13] In 2017, Hopa was also selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating women's contributions to knowledge in New Zealand.[14]

Bibliography

  • Curnow, J., N. K. Hopa and J. McRae (Eds). (2002). Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering History, Language & Politics in the Maori-Language Newspapers. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-86940-279-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[15]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Waikato Times". www.waikatotimes.co.nz. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Oxford's first Maori Woman PhD remembers Gordonton School". Number 8 Network. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  3. ^ K., Hopa, N. (1977). Urban Maori Sodalities a study in social change (D.Phil). University of Oxford.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Te Ahi Kaa 2 o Whiringa a rangi (October) 2011". Radio New Zealand. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  5. ^ Pettersen, Morten Kjeldseth (2007). Kapa Haka: Traditional Maori Performing Arts in Contemporary Settings (PDF) (Masters Thesis). Oslo: University of Oslo.
  6. ^ "APPOINTMENTS TO CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND". The Beehive. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Retirement" (PDF). Te Manutukutuku (24–25): 2. October–December 1993.
  8. ^ Mateariki, Atereano (1 May 2024). "Ngapare Hopa blazed trail for wāhine Māori academics". Waatea News: Māori Radio Station. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2008". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 June 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  10. ^ "Te Ahi Kaa 2 o Whiringa a rangi (October) 2011". Radio New Zealand. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Te Waka Toi Awards 2011". The Big Idea. 5 September 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Royal Society Te Apārangi - Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  13. ^ "Royal Society Te Apārangi - About Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Ngāpare Hopa". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  15. ^ Curnow, J., N. K. Hopa and J. McRae (Eds). (2002). Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering History, Language & Politics in the Maori-Language Newspapers. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-86940-279-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)