{{Short description|Māori spiritual leader (1937–2020)}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=December 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Rose Pere | birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|07|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Ruatahuna, Bay of Plenty | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|12|13|1937|07|25|df=y}} | death_place = Waikaremoana, New Zealand | resting_place = Rongopai Marae | known_for = education, Māori language advocate, mātauranga Māori, conservationist }} '''Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE|size=85%}} (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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Dr Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere|url=https://www.soulplacesmovie.nz/dr-rangimarie-turuki-rose-pere|access-date=2020-12-19|website=SOUL PLACES MOVIE}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Ddeaths |title=Death search: registration number 2020/32944 |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |access-date=20 December 2020}}</ref> 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).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Rangimarie Turuki Lambert Rose Pere|url=https://komako.org.nz/person/773|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200119082644/https://komako.org.nz/person/773|archive-date=2020-01-19|access-date=2020-12-19}}</ref><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Teaching te reo and kura kaupapa|url=https://ngataonga.org.nz/set/item/461?lang=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Nga Taonga The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound}}</ref> Her educational influence included nursing "with holistic ways of looking at health".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Te Rūnanga mourns the passing of tōhuna tipua Dr Rose Pere|url=https://www.nzno.org.nz/about_us/media_releases/artmid/4731/articleid/4155/te-rūnanga-mourns-the-passing-of-tōhuna-tipua-dr-rose-pere|access-date=2020-12-19|website=New Zealand Nurses Organisation}}</ref>
Pere represented New Zealand in 1975 at the United Nations International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City.<ref name=":1" /> 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.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-14|title=Dr Rose Pere, spiritual leader and academic, dies age 83|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/432837/dr-rose-pere-spiritual-leader-and-academic-dies-age-83|access-date=2020-12-19|website=RNZ }}</ref>
A well-known saying of Pere's is: "''He atua, he tangata''. We are both beautifully divine and beautifully human."<ref name=":2" />
== Honours and awards == In 1972, Pere was named as Young Maori Woman of the Year.<ref name=":0" /> She was honoured by the Cherokee Nation in 1984 as White Eagle Medicine Woman Of Peace,<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Rose|url=https://aoakogloballearning.co.nz/about-rose/|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Ao Ako Global Learning}}</ref> and in 1990 she received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal for her contribution to New Zealand education.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|last2=|first2=|last3=|first3=|last4=|date=16 December 2020|title=Minister Acknowledges The Passing Of Dr Rangimarie Rose Pere {{!}} Scoop News|url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2012/S00104/minister-acknowledges-the-passing-of-dr-rangimarie-rose-pere.htm|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Scoop}}</ref>
In the 1996 New Year Honours, Pere was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to Māori education.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-1996 |title=New Year honours list 1996 |date=30 December 1995 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=20 December 2020}}</ref> Later in 1996, she was conferred with an honorary doctorate in literature by Victoria University of Wellington.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/our-story/history/honorary-graduates |title=Honorary graduates and Hunter fellowships |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=20 December 2020}}</ref>
== Death == Pere died peacefully at her home in Waikaremoana on 13 December 2020.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Poroporoaki Dr Rose Pere|url=https://www.teputahitanga.org/media-releases/2020/12/15|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-14|title=Spiritual leader Dr Rose Pere has died, aged 83|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300183662/spiritual-leader-dr-rose-pere-has-died-aged-83|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Stuff}}</ref> She was buried next to her husband Joseph Pere at Rongopai Marae, near Gisborne.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Rose Pere will have lasting influence|url=https://www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjYzMDg/Paakiwaha/Rose-Pere-will-have-lasting-influence|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Waatea News}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Rangimarie Rose Pere laid to rest|url=https://www.teaomaori.news/dr-rangimarie-rose-pere-laid-rest|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Māori Television}}</ref>
== Selected works == {{incomplete list|date=December 2020}}
* ''Ako: Concepts and learning in the Maori tradition'' (1982) University of Waikato, Dept. of Sociology<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pere|first=Rangimarie Rose|date=1994-01-01|title=Ako : concepts and learning in the Māori tradition|url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/20844800|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-19|website=National Library of New Zealand}}</ref> * ''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''
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