Pioneer Women - Hera Ngoungou

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Pioneer Women - Hera Ngoungou

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This episode in the Pioneer Women series dramatised the story of Hera Ngoungou. In 1874 in Taranaki, Māori kidnapped an eight-year-old Pākehā girl — Caroline “Queenie” Perrett — possibly in retribution for her father breaking a tapu. Her family didn’t see her again until she was 60, when she was a grandmother and had spent more than 50 years living with, and identifying as, Māori. A moving (Feltex award-winning) performance from Ginette McDonald (aka Lyn of Tawa) mixes stoicism with an acknow...

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Video

Date created

1983

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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/pioneer-women-hera-ngoungou-1983

Related subjects

taranaki / māori / colonial / drama / pioneer / women / history / hera ngoungou / lepperton / kaipara / gum digging / gum diggers / gum fields / kauri gum / pākehā / te reo / te reo māori / tā moko / moko / identity / māori identity / utu / tīpuna / manutahi / kidnapping / missing person / 1980s / 1983 / 80s / 1874 / 1870s / hikitene ngoungou / theatre history / bicultural / biculturalism / culture / te reo maori / caroline perrett / tapu / whānau / whakapapa / racism

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