Titewhai Harawira
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Titewhai Te Huia Hinewhare Harawira (1932 – January 2023) was a New Zealand Māori activist.She was affiliated with the Ngāti Hau and Ngāti Hine hapū of Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Wai.
Harawira was an outspoken political commentator and a civil rights campaigner. She was part of a small group which formed the Waitangi Action Committee in 1979 to shut down Waitangi Day celebrations until the Treaty of Waitangi was honoured.Dame Whina Cooper, Eva Rickard and Harawira led a hikoi at Waitangi in 1985....In 1990 she went to the Netherlands to ask the government there to take back the name "New Zealand" so that the original Māori name "Aotearoa" could be used instead.....She was on the New Zealand Māori Council and was a talkback host at Radio Waatea.For many years Harawira escorted New Zealand Prime Ministers at Te Tii marae, Waitangi during Waitangi celebrations.....