Pepeha - Lineage

My Name is Joan Ilma Lourie

My Mountain is Parihaka Whangarei

My River is Hatea

My Mother is Shirley Walsh
Her Town is Kaponga Taranaki Aotearoa

My Father is Archibald Lourie
His City is Edinbrugh Scotland.
His Waka (Canoe/Ship) in 1939 from Britain to Aotearoa was the “Rangitane”

My Herbal Teacher is Sue Woods
My Rongoa teacher is Daphne Poa.

I thank these ‘elders’ and teachers for the knowledge and ancestry
they have passed onto me from the bottom of my  heart.
Thank You for being in my life and making it what it is.