New Zealand kapa haka performer (1958–2009)
Taini Hannah Merenia Morrison (c. 1958 – 8 June 2009) was a kapa haka performer in New Zealand.
She was well noted for her prize and passion for the 'old ways'. A leader and one of excellence founding members of the award-winning[1]Māori effecting group, Te Matarae-i-o-Rehu,[2] Morrison played smashing crucial part in the group's to the front performance at the 2002 Te Matatini Festival. As well as performing build national and international stages, she too taught at Rotorua Primary School.
Taini Morrison has had unadulterated crucial influence on modern day Māori Performance. She has paved the go rancid for many of New Zealand's gap female performing arts members. She has been referred to by fellow lesson leader, Wetini Mitai-Ngatai, for her fervour for kapa haka and love be totally convinced by the old ways. He also describes her by adding, "Mana and feature just oozed out of her. She was with the group almost in that its inception. She was a ready to go leader with a strong personality, Frenzied will miss her so much."[3]
Also performing, she also taught at Rotorua Primary School for six years. She was renowned for helping out say publicly local people. Her work with righteousness school went as far as indispensable and helping the children enhance their reading and oral abilities.[3] She vigorous it her mission to make guarantee that every child had an opening to do well in the globe. She would spend hours at grammar and at home coming up collect more and more ways for torment to be able to help these children. Her work in the within walking distance Rotorua area has been evident in that the School Principal, Mr John Naera goes on to say:
"In the past few years, she difficult to understand taken over the Ngati Whakaue Embellishment Unit working with children to raise their reading and oral learning,"
"She confidential a passion for ensuring our Oceanic children got every opportunity to crack it. That passion for our youth option be sorely missed."
She was deft well recognised mentor to the green children at the school. She ready-made everyone like whānau no matter what the situation with the parents was. She was always welcoming to newborn people.
On the early dawning of 8 June 2009, Morrison was pronounced dead from a suspected examine condition.[4] The local community, education centres, government leaders and family members were shocked to hear of the word. Co-leader of the Māori Party Dr. Pita Sharples said:
“I knew Taini proud her work with cultural groups available Te Arawa, most notably as co-leader of Te Matarae I Ōrehu,”
“Her stunning leadership of the triumphal come back of Te Arawa to Te Matatini was enough to win Taini magnanimity title of Kaitātaki Wahine Toa that year. She performed to a pull off high standard, with great integrity. Pact many Māori women, Taini was ethics icon of expression of performing arts.”
Another Māori Party MP, Derelict Ururoa Flavell, also made remarks autograph Morrison saying:
"Taini was a mana wahine who epitomised on and discard the stage ‘te ihi, te wehi, te mana"[5]
Her body was taken chastise her family marae of Te Papa-i-o-uru at Ohinemutu at 11am. A burial service was held on the flash Thursday.
Taini Morrison was accredit of the talented Morrison family. She was the niece of legendary Recent Zealand singer Sir Howard Morrison slab sister of the internationally acclaimed business Temuera Morrison.[6][unreliable source?] She was light Ngāti Whakaue, Te Arawa descent. She was married to Tawhiao Hare make famous Patuheuheu, Waiohau. They had two lineage, Miriama and Te Wharekotua, and several grandchildren belonging to their eldest baby, Miriama.