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Potaka-Dewes, Eru, 1939-2009

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Personal name headingPotaka-Dewes, Eru, 1939-2009
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Variant(s)Dewes, Eru Potaka-, 1939-2009
Associated placeTikapa (N.Z.)
Rotorua (N.Z.)
Birth date1939
Death date20090807
Place of birthRuatoria (N.Z.)
Field of activityNew Zealand--Politics and government Theology Maori (New Zealand people)
AffiliationMad Poets Society (Rotorua, N.Z.) Te Taapapa ki te Manawa o Te Wheke Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ruamata Te Ariari o Te Oranga Mental Health Ngāti Ruawaipu Te Whānau-a-Pōkai
Ngāti Uepōhatu (New Zealand people)
Profession or occupationPriests Poets Actors Deans (Education)
Found inThe road to Tikapa, 2012: title page (collected poems of Eru Potaka-Dewes) page iv (Rotorua "Mad Poets Society"; Eru Potaka-Dewes, Ngāti Ruawaipu, Ngāti Uepōhatu, Te Whānau-a-Pōkai, born in Hicks Bay, brought up at Tikapa; Dean of Atuatanga at Te Taapapa ki te Manawa o Te Wheke, Rotorua, he also taught part-time at the Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ruamata, Rotorua, and was a consultant for Te Ariari o Te Oranga Mental Health) page v (took an active role in political issues) page 133 (died in Rotorua, August 7, 2009; commentator and scholar in the field of theological issues, especially indigenous theology)
Wikipedia WWW site, viewed on January 22, 2014: Eru Potaka-Dewes page (born 1939 in Ruatoria; priest; actor; dean of theology at the Māori Anglican Theology College in Rotorua)