Mohi Turei

Mohi Tūrei (2 Maris ɗin shekarar 1914) sanannen shugaban kabilanci ne na New Zealand, ministan addini, mai magana da kuma mawaki na haka . Daga zuriyar Māori, ya bayyana kansa tare da Ngāti Porou iwi .  Shi kaɗai ne ɗan Te Omanga Tūrei na Ngāti Hokupu hapū da Makere Tangikuku na Te Aitanga‐a‐Mate hapū .

Ya kasance ƙwararren mai zane ciki har da aiki a gidan taro na Hinerupe (Wharenui) a Te Araroa, zane-zane na ciki na Ohinewaiapu Marae. Yayinda Turei ya rungumi Kiristanci, ya sami fahimtar tsohuwar addinin Maori da ilmantarwa na gargajiya daga Pita Kapiti, a tohunga, a Te Tapere-Nui-ā-W ce.

Ya yi girma a Te Kautuku kusa da Rangitukia kusa da bakin Kogin Waiapu . A shekara ta 1839, an buɗe makaranta a Rangitukia, wanda aka yi imanin cewa Tueri ya halarta. Daga baya ya halarci makarantar Waerenga-ā-hika a aikin Church Missionary Society (CMS), wanda Rev. William Williams ya kafa a yankin Gisborne.

Tūeri ya halarci majalisa ta farko ta Diocese na Waiapu a Waerenga-ā-hika a ranar 3 ga Disamban shekarar 1861.  Ya gudanar da karatun tauhidi a Kwalejin St. Stephen da ke Auckland .  An nada shi a matsayin mai hidima a ranar 25 ga Satumban shekarar 1864 kuma an nada shi a dikon minita na farko (minista) a Waiapū Pariha (parish), wanda shine Ikklisiya na uku na Anglican da Ngati Porou ya kafa. Hikurangi Pariha an kafa ta ne ta hanyar shugaban Ropata Wahawaha da Reverend Raniera Kawhia a 1860 kuma Tokomaru Pariha an gina ta ne ta hannun shugaban Henare Potae da Reverand Matiaha Pahewa a 1863.  A cikin 1865 akwai malamai goma sha huɗu - shida na Turai da takwas Māori - a cikin Diocese na Waiapu . Māori sun kasance: a Tokomaru, Matiaha Pahewa; a Wairoa, Tamihana Huata; a Turanga, Hare Tawhaa; a Waiapu, Rota Waitoa, Raniera Kawhia da Mohi Turei; a Table Cape, Watene Moeka; a Maketu, Ihaia Te Ahu . 

Cocin Waiapu Maori, wanda ke wakiltar gundumar daga Hicks Bay zuwa Table Cape (Kahutara Point), Māhia Peninsula, ya haɗu a Turanganui a ranar 30 ga Oktoban shekarar 1870. Akwai malamai takwas, bakwai daga cikinsu Māori ne, da kuma Māori laymen. William Williams, wanda aka nada shi Bishop na Waiapū, ya naɗa Tūrei,  da Hare Tawhaa na Turanganui, a matsayin firistoci, da Wi Paraire na Hicks Bay da Hone Pohutu, a matsayin dikonawa. 

Tūrei ya yi tsayayya da ƙungiyar Pai Mārire (wanda aka fi sani da Hauhau) lokacin da masu wa'azi a ƙasashen waje suka kasance masu aiki a Gabashin Gabas ta shekarar 1865. Tūrei ya bi mayaƙan Ngati Porou waɗanda suka ci sojojin Hauhau a Waerenga-ā-hika a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1865.   A ranar 13 ga Yulin shekarar 1897, Tūrei tare da Matiaha Pahewa, Eruera Kawhia da Piripi Awarau, sun taimaka wa Rev. H. Williams wajen gudanar da jana'izar Ropata Wahawaha, wanda ya yi yaƙi da Hauhau.

A shekara ta 1904 an nada Tūrei a matsayin mai kula da Waiapū na farko. Ya kula da ginin cocin St John na biyu, don maye gurbin cocin da Hauhau ya ƙone.[1] Ya kasance minista a Rangitukia har zuwa 1909, lokacin da ya yi ritaya yayin da ya zama mai barci tare da shanyayye Waiapū.

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