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Ngāti Rānana

Ngāti Rānana

Māori cultural group based in London

Ngāti Rānana is a Māori cultural group based in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. It is open to the Māori community in the city, and hosts events attended by many non-Māori. The club aims to provide "an environment to teach, learn and participate in Māori culture and to promote New Zealand through Māori culture".[1] Its performing arts group regularly performs throughout the UK and the rest of Europe.

A concert hosted by Ngāti Rānana in 2009

History

In 1959 the group was founded by a small group of London-based New Zealanders as the London Māori Club.[2] In 1971 it was renamed the Ngāti Rānana London Māori Club. Ngāti denotes a tribe (or iwi) and Rānana is a Māori-language translation (similar pronunciation) of the name London.[3]

Founding member Esther Jessop was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service in the 1994 New Year Honours.[4] She was named New Zealander of the Year in Britain in 2009,[2] and in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori and to New Zealand–British relations.[5]

Since 2005 the New Zealand Studies Association has issued the "Rahera Windsor Award for New Zealand Studies", in honour of another of Ngāti Rānana's founding members, Rahera Windsor.[6]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Main page". Ngati Ranana. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
  2. [2]
    "New Zealander of the Year named". The New Zealand Herald. 7 February 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
  3. [3]
    "ranana - Māori Dictionary". maoridictionary.co.nz. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  4. [4]
    "No. 53528". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1993. p. 35.
  5. [5]
    "Queen's Birthday honours list 2021". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  6. [6]
    "The Rahera Windsor Award for New Zealand Studies". NZSA. April 2005. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011.


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