Tupou Manapori

Tupou Here Tamata Manapori is a Cook Island New Zealand teacher and Cook Islands Māori language advocate. In 1999, Manapori was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to local-body and community affairs. In 2009, she was awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to the Pacific Islands community. She qualified as a home economics teacher, and moved to New Zealand in 1968. Manapori advocated the Cook Islands Māori language to be recognised through an NCEA qualification, and Hillary College became the first school to offer NCEA-level Te Reo Māori Kūki 'Āirani.

Manapori served on the Ōtara Community Board for sixteen years. In the 2009 New Year Honours, she was awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to the Pacific Islands community. In 2015 she was awarded a Pacific Community Leadership Award at the inaugural SunPix Pacific Peoples’ Awards. During Cook Islands Language Week in 2021 Manapori was awarded by the Ministry for Pacific Peoples as one of five Cook Islands Language Champions.