Description

Oral Interview - Jo Ihimaera

Object type

Audiotapes

Description: 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.