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HUAKI
“To bring to Light”
Edition 15
Friday, December 27, 2024
Cyril Chapman: celebrating a te reo Māori advocate and iwi Māori radio icon te kūkupa news te kūkupa, the Tai Tokerau regional news service collaboration between Ngāti Hine FM, Te Hiku Media and Tautoko FM, will be holding Māori media and journalism wānanga over the next few months, commemorating trailblazers in te ao papaho including Hirini Henare, Rereata Makiha, Waihoroi Shortland and Pierre Lyndon.
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ia maumahara tonu tātou: Before 2024 ends, we pay tribute to our whānaunga, te reo Māori advocate and iwi Māori radio icon, Cyril Chapman (Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Te Rangi) who gifted us the name ‘te kūkupa’. Cyril Tainui Chapman passed away in September this year, from cancer. A humble whānau and hāpori leader, Cyril was a staunch advocate for environmental, human, and Māori rights. Born in Hokianga, he was one of 22 tamariki of Dooley and Raumati Chapman, growing up in Mangamuka, Mangataipa, and Tutekehua. At 19, Cyril carried the pou whenua during the 1975 Māori Land March led by Dame Whina Cooper. He later joined the theatre group Maranga Mai, which toured New Zealand in 1979-1980, dramatising Māori land rights protests.
Photo: Cyril Chapman carried the pou whenua during the historic Land March lead by Dame Whina Cooper in 1975 (Photo: John Miller). And again, in 2015, at the 40th celebrations of Te Unga Waka Marae in Tamaki Makaurau (Photo: Jos Wheeler).
Cyril was an active member of the Waitangi Action Committee and Te Kawariki, leading annual journeys from Te Reinga to Waitangi between the late 1980s and the 2000s. He also helped establish Radio Tautoko, with his brother Hori, in the late 1980s and led the Mangamuka-based iwi station, until his death.
Radio Tautoko, now Tautoko FM, was one of the first Māori radio stations to broadcast on FM, was rebuilt after a fire in 2014. He repurposed the former Mangamuka Pub into the Mangamuka Hub, a vibrant community space designed for whānau and hapū initiatives.
the desecration of wāhi tapu. He also resisted the Te Rarawa Treaty settlement, advocating for his hapū rights.
A descendant of Te Kohatutaka, Te Ihutai, and Ngāti Tama hapū, Cyril was deeply involved in local activism, including opposing 1080 poison and protesting
E Kara, e Cyril, pēnei i te kūkupa e whai ana i tōna miro, ko koe hoki tēnā kua hoki te māra o ōu tūpuna. Moe mai rā, e te rangatira.
One of his last campaigns involved erecting a pou whenua at Omakura near Tutekehua, where he now rests.
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