Dedication to Maori and indigenous research rewarded 11 Nov 2015
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Dedication to Maori and indigenous research rewarded
Professor Margaret Mutu of the University of Auckland has been awarded the Pou Aronui Award for her sustained contribution to indigenous rights and scholarship in New Zealand.
The Pou Aronui Award is awarded annually by the Royal Society of New Zealand. It acknowledges distinguished service to the humanities-aronui over a sustained period of time
Professor Mutu is a Professor in Maori Studies at the University. She is Chairperson of two of her marae and Te Runanga-a-iwi o Ngati Kahu (Ngati Kahu’s parliament).
She received the Pou Aronui Award at a special ceremony in Auckland tonight.
She found out she was to receive it about a month ago but had to keep the news secret, only telling a few whanau and friends so they could attend the awards ceremony.
“Some of my whanau accompanied me to the awards dinner so I had to tell them and they are absolutely thrilled. My whanau, hapu and iwi have made huge contributions to my research over the past 40 years so this award recognises them as well,” Professor Mutu says.
“It was also hugely gratifying to see the importance of Maori and indigenous human rights research being recognised by such an august body of scholars and scientists as the Royal Society.”
Professor Mutu says the award is significant as it gives recognition for the work being done to achieve international human rights standards for Maori in New Zealand.
“It highlights the importance for New Zealand of knowing, understanding and acknowledging not only the rightful place of Maori language, culture, tradition and history but also the steps that still need to be taken in order to achieve justice and prosperity for Maori,” she says.
Her current Marsden Fund project explores Maori claimants’ perspectives and experiences of Treaty of Waitangi settlements.
The research has included media and literature searches, including reviewing all of the thousands of submissions made to select committees on treaty settlements conducted to date.
So far she has revealed a large number of serious problems and difficulties with both the process of settling Treaty of Waitangi claims and the settlements themselves and found that benefits arising from the settlements are being obscured by the difficulties and the divisions that the settlements bring to Maori communities.
“The settlement policy and process has been unilaterally determined by successive governments and imposes settlements and structures that often conflict with and disrupt the fundamental values, laws, culture and social structures of those Maori communities,” she says.
Professor Mutu’s next focus is to continue a large number of in depth interviews with claimants and negotiators.
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