Kiti Karaka Rīwai

Kiti Karaka Rīwai was a New Zealand tribal leader. She was born in Ruapuke Island, Southland, New Zealand in 1870, to parents Arapetere Karaka and Mary.
Of Māori and Moriori descent, she identified with the Kāti Māmoe iwi. 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. Her second husband was Te Ao Ahitana Matenga of Ngāti Kahungunu, with whom she had one child, Joey Ashton.
She helped build the meeting house in Wairua in the 1890s. She died in Greytown in 1927.