Tuheitia Paki

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Tuheitia Paki

Tuheitia Paki, OStJ (born 21 April 1955) is the current Maori king

Maori King Movement

The Maori King Movement or Kingitanga is a movement that arose among some of the Maori tribes of New Zealand in the 1850s to establish a symbolic role similar in status to that of the monarch of the colonising people, the British....
in New Zealand

New Zealand

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(Aotearoa

Aotearoa

Aotearoa is the most widely known and accepted Maori language name for New Zealand. It is used by both Maori and non-Maori, and is becoming increasingly widespread in the bilingual names of national organisations, such as the National Library of New Zealand / Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa....
). He is the eldest son of the previous Maori monarch, Dame Te Atairangikaahu

Te Atairangikaahu

Dame Te Atairangikaahu Order of New Zealand, Order of British Empire was the Maori King Movement for 40 years, the longest reign of any Maori monarch....
, and was announced as her successor and crowned on the same day as her tangihanga

Tangihanga

Tangihanga, or more commonly, Tangi, is a Maori funeral rite....
(funeral rites) took place, on August 21 2006. His official title has not yet been decided but it is understood it will not be Te Arikinui (the great leader / chief), his mother's title.

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Tuheitia Paki, OStJ (born 21 April 1955) is the current Maori king

Maori King Movement

New Zealand

Aotearoa

Te Atairangikaahu

Tangihanga

Huntly, New Zealand

Huntly is a town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is on New Zealand State Highway 1, 93 kilometres south of Auckland, New Zealand and 35 kilometres north of Hamilton, New Zealand....
, Southwell School

Southwell School

Southwell School is an independent co-educational Anglican preparatory school located in Hamilton, New Zealand, New Zealand. Southwell School caters for the academic, cultural, sporting and spiritual needs of 4 to 13 year olds....
in Hamilton and St Stephen's College in Bombay

Bombay Hills, New Zealand

The Bombay Hills are a range of hills to the south of Auckland, New Zealand. Though only a small and seemingly insignificant range of hills, they lie at the southern boundary of the Auckland Region, and serve as a North-South divide between Auckland and the Waikato region....
.

Marriage and Family

He is married to Te Atawhai and has three children: Whatumoana, Korotangi, and Ngawai.

Duties and Background

Prior to becoming king, he was the Tainui

Tainui

Tainui is a tribal waka confederation of New Zealand Maori iwi. The Tainui confederation comprises four principal related Maori iwi of the central North island of New Zealand: Hauraki, Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Raukawa and Waikato....
cultural advisor to Te Wananga o Aotearoa

Te Wananga o Aotearoa

Te Wananga o Aotearoa is a tertiary education provider, specifically a wananga, in New Zealand. Its name, which is in Maori language, literally means "University of New Zealand" and it recently became the largest public tertiary education institution in the nation , delivering educational programmes across multiple campuses....
at Huntly

Huntly, New Zealand

attending the funeral of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga
Tonga

The Kingdom of Tonga in the south Pacific Ocean comprises an archipelago of 171 islands, 48 of them inhabited, stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres in a north-south line....
, September 2006
attending the opening of Pukawa
Pukawa

Pukawa is a quiet bay of holiday homes on the west banks of Lake Taupo. Manunui-a-Ruakapanga is the name of a marae in Pukawa Bay that was opened on 18 November 2006, in a ceremony attended by Tuheitia Paki, the Maori King.....
Marae
Marae

A marae malae , malae , is a sacred place which served both religious and social purposes in pre-Christian Polynesian societies. In all these languages, the word also means "cleared, free of weeds, trees, etc." It generally consists of an area of cleared land roughly rectangular , bordered with stones or wooden posts perhaps w...
on the shore of Lake Taupo
Lake Taupo

Lake Taupo is a lake situated in the North Island of New Zealand. It has a perimeter of approximately 193 kilometres, a deepest point of 186 metres and a surface area of 616 square kilometres....
, Aotearoa, on 17-19 November 2006.
attending the opening of "Mauri Ora" an exhibition of Maori artefacts from Te Papa
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is the national museum of New Zealand. It is branded and commonly known as Te Papa and Our Place; "Te Papa Tongarewa" is broadly translatable as "the place of treasures of this land"....
on exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo National Museum

Established 1872, the , or TNM, is the oldest and largest museum in Japan. The museum collects, houses, and preserves a comprehensive collection of art works and archaeology objects of Asia, focusing on Japan....
in Tokyo, Japan on 22 January 2007.
attending the funeral of Malietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa
Samoa

Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa , is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean....
, 19 May, 2007
attending the re-opening of the marae/war memorial hall in Ngaiotonga, Whangaruru 2007