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To complete this activity, use the library or provide students
with information on Te Puea (eg. Michael King's book 'Te Puea Herangi:
From Darkness to Light'). Students are to try to complete the following
scavenger hunt. (These are just a few examples of what you could use. It
only goes from her birth up until 1927. Te Puea did so many things
that you might want to do the scavenger hunt in two
parts.) There are answers for this part of the scavenger hunt.
- What does her name mean?
- Where and when was she born?
- Who was Te Puea's grandfather? What role did he have?
- Why was she named Te Puea?
- Who was Te Puea's mother?
- What was Te Puea called by her family?
- What did Mahuta educate Te Puea in?
- Name the 3 schools Te Puea attended, and their location.
- When did Te Puea's mother die?
- Where did her mother tell her to return to if she died?
- What did Te Puea do when she thought she was dying of tuberculosis?
- Who was Roy Seccombe?
- What did Mahuta do to make Te Puea change her life?
- Who did Te Puea help to elect to parliament for Western Maori in 1911?
- What happened in 1913 that made Te Puea take orphans to Mangatawhiri?
- Who became the Maori king in 1912?
- What did Te Puea try to protect the men of Mangatawhiri from in 1916?
- What song did Te Puea sing in 1917 to take a stand against conscription of Maori men?
- What hit Mangatawhiri badly in 1918.
- What did Te Puea do with the orphans?
- Why did the people of Mangatawhiri move to Ngaruawahia?
- What did Te Puea call this new pa?
- How did they raise more money to develop the pa?
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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