From an early age, she was raised by her maternal grandmother Amiria (Miria) Solomon because her parents travelled frequently on parliamentary business. Whetū was the seventh child of 12 and the eldest surviving daughter. Before she was born, Rātana prophesied that Whetū would become a political leader and named her ‘Whetū Marama’ in an evocation of the Rātana symbol’s star and crescent moon. He held the Southern Māori seat from 1932 until his death in 1967, from 1936 as a Labour member in a Rātana–Labour alliance. He also had Ngāti Toa and English ancestry.Įruera was one of the prophet Tahupotiki Wiremu Rātana's political advisers, and the first Rātana (independent) MP elected to Parliament. Her father Eruera Tirikātene was Ngāi Tahu, a descendant of the rangatira Tūhuru of Westland and of Motoitoi of Otago. Her mother Ruti (Lucy) Matekino Horomona (Solomon) was of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Pahauwera of Ngāti Kahungunu, Danish and Jewish descent. Tini Whetū Marama Tirikātene was born at Rātana pā, south of Whanganui, on 9 January 1932. She was also a New Zealand fashion icon with a distinctive sense of style which drew upon her whakapapa and celebrated her love of Māori design. The Treaty of Waitangi and the Rātana faith were central tenets of her personal and political life, and her parliamentary career was focused on the abolition of laws that oppressed Māori. An accomplished academic, social worker, designer, sportswoman and dancer, she paved the way for women to combine a political career with motherhood. Whetū Tirikātene-Sullivan was New Zealand’s first Māori woman cabinet minister, its longest-serving woman MP, and a staunch advocate in Parliament for Māori interests. It was translated into te reo Māori by Charisma Rangipunga and Hēni Jacob. This biography, written by Helen Brown, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 2018. This was the onset of the viral trend when Twitter and Instagram users started posting these name definitions on their social media profiles.Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu kaitōrangapū, whetū marama o te ao kākahu, wahine toa The Urban dictionary name trend started when Instagram user posted the prompt “Show us your name in Urban Dictionary” and his query quickly went viral. Netizens are going gaga over this new trend. Urban Dictionary which was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham as a crowdsourced dictionary for slang words is now being used in a way that the creator must not have even thought about. This has become one of the most viral trend on social media where users are searching for their own names on Urban Dictionary and posting the screenshots of unique and idiosyncratic 'definitions' on Instagram and Twitter. Until now Urban Dictionary was viewed as a basic source to know the meanings of slangs but now the bored yet creative social media users have turned to the glossary to find definitions for their names not found in the Oxford English Dictionary. Urban Dictionary was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham as a crowdsourced dictionary for slang words.Twitter and Instagram users started posting these name definitions on their social media profiles.Urban dictionary name trend started when Instagram user query went viral.
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