US EditionTe Pāti Māori co-founder Dame Tariana Turia dies after suffering stroke
- Dame Tariana Turia, co-founder of Te Pāti Māori, suffered a stroke earlier this week, as stated by her iwi, Te Ranga Tupua.
- She served as a Member of Parliament for 18 years, joining in 1996 as a Labour Party list MP before leaving in 2004 over a controversy.
- Turia was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2015 for her parliamentary services.
- Her family announced that she is still with them but has not been given much time with them all.
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Te Pāti Māori co-founder Dame Tariana Turia dies
Dame Tariana Turia has died aged 80 in Whangaehu overnight.The founder and former co-leader of Te Pāti Māori suffered a stroke earlier this week and was said not to have long left.A press release from Te Ranga Tupua said she had died in the early hours of Friday morning. “A mother of six; grandmother; great-grandmother and great-grandmother of over 80 mokopuna, Kahurangi (Dame) Tariana will be remembered for spearheading a movement of transforma…
Ask the night, investigate the night, explain what you have taken, what you have stolen? Fly into the world, I will search, where is my shelter from the tide of the struggle for independence? Oh night, silence the night, oh! O blue sky, O chief Tariana. Go forth from the blow of the sword, on the day of the eight, to the line of the tapairu in the sky, to the great western horizon of the night that is not raised. Go forth, O waterfall in my ey…
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