Margaret Mutu
Margaret Shirley Mutu is a Ngāti Kahu activist,[1] leader and academic from Auckland, New Zealand. Her iwi are Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Whātua.[2]
She obtained a BSc in Mathematics, a MPhil in Māori Studies and a Ph.D. in Māori Studies specialising in linguistics.[3] She is now Professor of Māori Studies as well as head of department at University of Auckland.[4] She has taught Māori language and Treaty of Waitangi courses since 1986.[5]
Mutu is chairperson of the Ngāti Kahu runanga executive (the legal entity representing the iwi or tribe),[5] their chief negotiator for treaty settlements,[2] and spokesperson to the media.[6]
Bibliography
Books
- Mutu, Margaret, 2011. The State of Māori Rights. Wellington, Huia Publishers. ISBN 978-1-86969-437-1
- Mutu, Margaret and McCully Matiu. 2003. Te Whānau Moana – Ngā kaupapa me ngā tikanga – Customs and protocols. Auckland, Reed Publishing. ISBN 0790008394
- Mutu, Margaret. 2002. Ūa Pou: Aspects of a Marquesan dialect. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 0858835266
Chapters
- Mutu, Margaret. 2010. "Constitutional Intentions: The Treaty Text" in Mulholland, Malcolm and Veronica Tāwahi (eds). Weeping Waters. Wellington, Huia. pp 13–40. ISBN 9781869694043
- Mutu, Margaret. 2010. "Ngāti Kahu Kaitiakitanga" in Malcolm Mulholland, Rachel Selby, Pataka Moore (eds). Māori and the Environment. Wellington, Huia. pp 13–36. ISBN 9781869694029
- Mutu, Margaret. 2009. "Māori Media Depiction of Chinese: From Despised and Feared to Cultural and Political Allies" in Manying Ip (ed). The Dragon and the Taniwha. Auckland, Auckland University Press. ISBN 9781869404369
- Mutu, Margaret. 2006. "Recovering and Developing Ngāti Kahu's Prosperity" in Malcolm Mulholland (ed). State of the Māori Nation. Auckland, Reed Publishing. ISBN 9780790010427
- Mutu, Margaret. 2004. "The Humpty Dumpty principle at work: The role of mistranslation in the British settlement of Aotearoa: The Declaration of Independence and He wakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o nga hapu o Nu Tireni" in Sabine Fenton (ed). For better or for worse: Translation as a tool for change in the South Pacific. Manchester, England, St Jerome Publishing. ISBN 978-1-900650-67-0
- Mutu, Margaret. 2004. "Recovering Fagin's Ill-gotten Gains: Settling Ngāti Kahu's Treaty of Waitangi Claims against the Crown" in Michael Belgrave, David Williams and Merata Kāwharu (eds). Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi. Melbourne, Australia, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195584004
- Mutu, Margaret. 2004. "Researching the Pacific" in Tupeni Baba, `Okusitino Mahina, Nuhisifa Williams and Unaisi Nabobo-Baba (eds). Researching the Pacific and Indigenous Peoples. Auckland, Centre for Pacific Studies, The University of Auckland. ISBN 0908959079
- Mutu, Margaret. 2002. "Barriers to tangata whenua participation in resource management" in Merata Kāwharu (ed). Whenua: Managing our resources. Auckland, Reed Publishing. ISBN 9780790008585
References
- ↑ "New Zealand Parliament". 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Margaret Mutu | Te Hiku Forum". tehiku.maori.nz. 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ↑ "New Zealand Parliament". 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ↑ "Margaret Mutu | Māori Studies (Te Wānanga o Waipapa)". 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Chairperson | Ngāti Kahu". ngatikahu.iwi.nz. 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ↑ "Anger smoulders beneath idyllic veneer". stuff.co.nz. 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
Professor Margaret Mutu, a spokeswoman for the iwi, wants a court order to stop the proposed development of luxury apartments on their ancestral burial site. She refused to be drawn into an argument over who lit the fires.
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