Rīwai Te Ropiha (div.1900s), Te Ao Ahitana Matenga (Joseph Ashton)
Children
10
Parents
Arapetere Karaka (Albert Clark) (father)
Mary (née Owen) (mother)
Kiti Karaka Rīwai (12 September 1870 – 21 January 1927) (also known as Kiti Karaka, Catherine Clark, Kate Clark, Kitty Clark, Kiti Karaka Te Ao Ahitana, or Kiti Ashton)[1] was a New Zealand tribal leader. She was born in Ruapuke Island, Southland, New Zealand in 1870, to parents Arapetere Karaka (Albert Clark) and Mary (née Owen).[2][3]
Of Māori and Moriori descent, she identified with the Kāti Māmoeiwi. Her first husband was Riwai Te Ropiha, a Moriori of the Chatham Islands, with whom she had nine children before divorcing in the early 1900s.[1][3] Her second husband was Te Ao Ahitana Matenga (Joseph Ashton) of Ngāti Kahungunu, with whom she had one child, Joey Ashton.[4]
She helped build the meeting house in Wairua in the 1890s.[5] She died in Greytown in 1927.[1][3]
^"Riwai, Kiti Karaka, 1870-1927". Riwai, Kiti Karaka, 1870-1927 | Items | National Library of New Zealand | National Library of New Zealand. 1 January 1870. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
^ abcTaonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Rīwai, Kiti Karaka". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
