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'''Tanaeang''' is a settlement in [[North Tabiteuea]], Kiribati. A former cultist stronghold and Catholic [[apostolic vicariate]], it is the birthplace of former president [[Teburoro Tito]].
== History ==
According to [[oral tradition]], Tabiteuea has long been divided between [[Autonomy|autonomous]] districts or villages such as Tanaeang, known as ''aono''. One story describes the establishment of Tanaeang from a distant land in the west, Rôrô, led by the brothers Bouabaraki and Taningabaraki. They built the village maneaba, which was completed by another group of ancestors, Bakoa and his three sons, Rairimoa, Rairimui and Tewatu.{{Sfn|Dumas|2014|pp=|loc=chapter IV}}
In the 1860s, a man named Tanako introduced a new religion to Tabiteuea that worshipped Tioba ([[Jehovah]]). It [[Syncretism|syncretized]] indigenous beliefs and [[Christians|Christian]] teachings he claimed to have learned in Fiji. Tanaeang was quickly converted and made Tanako's headquarters. Tioba's worshippers were later defeated in a violent battle against two [[Protestantism|Protestant]] missionaries and their convertees. Tanaeang was forced to convert to Protestantism.{{Sfn|Dumas|2014|pp=64–65}}
In 1933, Father [[Octave Terrienne]] and Brother Eloi built a [[Catholic]] stone church in Tanaeang. The village today is predominantly Catholic. However, the people prefer to use a larger church modelled after a maneaba, with cement pillars and a corrugated sheet metal roof. In 1936, Terrienne became the bishop of the Gilbert Islands. He made Tanaeang an [[apostolic vicariate]] until he moved to [[Tarawa]] in the 1850s.{{Sfn|Dumas|2014|pp=68, 119}}
Former president [[Teburoro Tito]] was born in Tanaeang on 25 August 1952 or 1953.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=New Permanent Representative of Kiribati Presents Credentials |date=13 September 2017 |publisher=[[United Nations]] |url=https://press.un.org/en/2017/bio5018.doc.htm}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=East |first1=Roger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VO4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA274 |title=Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders |last2=Thomas |first2=Richard J. |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2003 |isbn=9781317639404 |pages=274{{endash}}275}}</ref>
== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book |last=Dumas |first=Guigone |url=https://www.academia.edu/31748584 |title=Tabiteuea, Kiribati |date=2014 |publisher=[[Barbier-Mueller Museum|Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller]] |isbn=9-782754-10787-7 |location= |pages= |url-access=registration}}
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