Titewhai Te Huia Hinewhare Harawira was a New Zealand Māori activist.
Born in 1932 in the Northland farming area of Whakapara, Harawira trained as a nurse.
In the 1970s, Harawira became a member of the protest group Ngā Tamatoa and campaigned against bitter criticism, of the Māori language.
She was among a small group that formed the Waitangi Action Committee in 1979 to shut down Waitangi Day celebrations until the Treaty of Waitangi was honoured.
In 1985, Dame Whina Cooper, Eva Rickard and Harawira led a hikoi at Waitangi.
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.
When the Māori Party was formed in 2004, Titewhai wanted to stand as a candidate for it in the general election in 2005, however, it was her son Hone who entered Parliament as a Māori Party MP.
During Waitangi Day celebrations Titewhai Harawira often accompanied prime ministers onto the local marae.
Titewhai Harawira died on January 25, 2023, at age 90 in Avondale.
Titewhai Harawira Children: Did Titewhai Harawira Have Kids?
Yes, Titewhai Harawira had children.
Titewhai Harawira and her husband John Puriri Harawira had eight children including New Zealand politician Hone Pani Tamati Waka Nene Harawira