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Wahine toa - Atareta Poananga remembered

Brilliant, beautiful and articulate, Atareta was labelled an outspoken radical activist in the '80s.

She herself described Māori nationalists as "conservatives...merely conserving our culture."

Atareta Nicole Poananga (Ngāti Porou, Rangitāne) died on 29.04.20.