Oral Interview - Jo Ihimaera
- Access
- Open
- Description
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An interview with Jo Ihimaera, a Palmerston North City Council employee at the time, who has been involved in a number of Māori programmes, roles and organisations.
Interviewer is Ian Matheson, recorded on 29 December 1994.
Ritihia Josephine Ihimaera was a Principal Planner for Maori Resource Management and Community Advisor for the Palmerston North City Council.
The interview includes: - Growing up in Gisborne and attending Auckland Teachers’ College - Working with Whetu Tirikātene - Working at Manawatū Polytechnic - First Māori Representative elected at Manawatū Polytechnic Council - Initiating and Creating Community Development in Arts - Working in Community Development at PNCC - Highbury Whānau Resource Centre - Working with Pasifika and migrant communities - The Urban Marae Project - Working as the Principal Planner for Māori Resource Management - Impressions of the structure of Palmerston North City Council especially in light of restructuring in 1989 and 1993 - Te Waka Āwhina - Māori Local Government Association - Maatatua Declaration 1993, accepted by Geneva into the 1994 Bill of Rights for Indigenous People
Can be heard on Manawatū Heritage 2020Au_PNCC-S38_031829.
Three cassette tapes and 1 folder. Tape recording kept in Coolstore.
Identification
- Object type
- Audiotapes
- Is associated with place
- Palmerston North City
- Identifier
- PNCC 00038:1:2
- Location
- Ian Matheson City Archives
- Date
- 1994
- Finding aid
- PNCC Archives > Tape Recordings (PNCC 00038)
- Related series (1)
- Tape Recordings (PNCC 00038)
- Related created by (1)
- Palmerston North City Council