Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies
"Manawa whenua, wē moana uriuri, hōkikitanga whenua. From the heart of the land, to the depths of the sea; repositories of knowledge abound"
Te Tumu is committed to high quality research and research-informed teaching, with the aim of producing graduates committed to Māori, Pacific and Indigenous knowledge, heritage and values, and equipped with the skills to be developers of communities and nations in the global context.
All items relating to the School can be found under Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies collection*. They are also listed under their sub-discipline.
Te Tumu is home to programmes in Māori Studies, Pacific Islands Studies and Indigenous Development, including the Masters of Indigenous Studies programme.
Collections in Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies
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Indigenous Studies [29]
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Māori Studies [53]
Recent Deposits
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Culturally responsive teaching of Māori in mainstream education
This thesis investigates how culturally responsive practice is currently being implemented within mainstream education in Dunedin. It looks at both the primary and early childhood education sectors. For the purpose of this ... -
Nā te kōti i tatari: The inconsistent treatment of tikanga taurima (whāngai) in Ngāti Mutunga (1820 – 2019)
This thesis argues that taurima (customary kin adoptive relationships) have been inconsistently treated in Ngāti Mutunga iwi (tribe) since 1820, and disproportionately so since the advent of the Native Land Court in 1862. ... -
A Kaupapa Māori study of the positive impacts of syncretism on the development of Christian faith among Māori from my faith-world perspective
I am a syncretist: I blend religious ideas that shape my faith. As a syncretist studying syncretism, I am the architect, builder, negotiator and navigator of this research. My original contribution to knowledge is a Kaupapa ... -
Kā pākihi kā whakatekateka a waitaha The plains where the waitaha strutted proudly Titiro ki muri, kia whakatika ā mua, look to the past to proceed to the future: Why tīpuna used rakimārie peaceful living to claim and maintain ahi kā burning fires of occupation during early colonial contact and does it hold validity and relevance for whānau family today?
This hybrid publications-based thesis explores the concept of rakimārie as a way to sustain and maintain relationships with Papatūānuku and some Indigenous tribes of Aotearoa New Zealand. This thesis focusses on the First ... -
Manu narratives of Polynesia: a comparative study of birds in 300 traditional Polynesian stories
In all traditional Polynesian societies, birds engaged humans’ imagination with their songs, their colours and their power of flight, especially because of the absence of large land mammals in Polynesia. Manu (‘birds’ in ... -
Whakaritea te pārekereke: How prepared are teachers to teach te reo Māori speaking tamariki in mainstream primary schools?
Kohikohia ngā kākano, whakaritea te pārekereke, kia puāwai ngā hua. Gather the seeds, prepare the seedbed carefully, and you will be gifted with an abundance of food. This thesis presents a study about teacher preparedness ... -
Cooking with Gas: Māori and the coming energy transition
This paper presents an Indigenous and Māori perspective about the need for urgent energy transitions by examining three areas: • Climate change transition, which I define as an energy transition to a largely non-fossil-fuel ... -
Giving - should it hurt? : a study of the giving of the Samoan people to the Church
(…) I aspire to provide a tangible explanation to answer the issue of why financial giving to the church by the Samoan people is right and whether it should hurt. I realise that such an assured answer may cause offence; ... -
Through their eyes: A Samoan perspective on child wellbeing
Child wellbeing is the subject of a considerable body of research and policy making globally, and in New Zealand today. Despite its extensive use, the concept of child wellbeing is used differently across disciplines and ... -
Whakapapakāinga: a template for the cross- generational development of marae-communities
Through case study research located in Northland, New Zealand, this thesis investigates the future of papakāinga (kin-community settlements) and their marae (ancestral centres of tribal identity). Māori kin-communities ... -
Building biocultural approaches into Aotearoa – New Zealand’s conservation future
Indigenous peoples’ roles in conservation are important because they offer alternate perspectives and knowledge centred on the quality of the human–environment relationship. Here, we present examples of Māori cultural ... -
Sacred Katuiran: Decolonial Sensibility in the Katipunan Papers: An ‘indigenist hermeneutic’ of nineteenth-century Tagalog revolutionary texts
Indigenous meanings and renderings tend to be forgotten and buried, and even erased, by non-indigenist interpretations and translations. This is a case study of an ‘indigenist hermeneutic’ approach to a re-translation of ... -
Colonial Intervention on Guardianship and 'Adoption' Practices in Fiji 1874-1970
The arrival of Europeans in Fiji, from the late 1700s, impacted the established social structures of the indigenous communities, removing what were considered inappropriate social behaviours and introducing concepts and ... -
Examining Traditional Maaori Knowledge Frameworks and Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission “Titiro, Whakarongo” - he huarahi ako noo ngaa raa o nehe. “Look, Listen”- a way of learning from days past.
Te Aria (Abstract) This thesis investigates the way knowledge is transmitted inter-generationally, and the teaching and learning methods (or pedagogies) used to do this. The transmission referred to here relates to knowledge ... -
A contemporary Māori culinary tradition - does it exist? : an analysis of Māori cuisine
The Western world has long boasted different, regional culinary traditions as witnessed by the Yorkshire pudding of Northeast England, the gateaux of France and the griddle of Western Scotland. An extraordinary aspect of ... -
Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions
Human settlement into new regions is typically accompanied by waves of animal extinctions, yet we have limited understanding of how human communities perceived and responded to such ecological crises. The first megafaunal ... -
Māori Land Court 1960-1980 : an autoethnographic and social commentary
The Maori Land Court in the 1960s and 1970s was a Court responsible for settling issues over the ownership, use and disposal of various land held by Maori. In 1980, a Royal Commission that examined the Maori Land Court ... -
Exploring learner-centredness for adults learning te reo Māori: easing the path to language acquisition
Learner-centredness takes learners and their needs, interests, enthusiasms and aspirations as the starting point of the education process, and this thesis explores what a learner-centred approach might contribute to adult ... -
He Waka Huia, He Waka Reo-ā-Iwi : The importance of reo-ā-iwi in identity formation
Dialect is often described linguistically, but there is a dearth of research being conducted that looks at reo-ā-iwi (tribal language variation) from a sociolinguistic point of view and what it means to speakers of the ...