Margaret Mutu

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Margaret Mutu
Born
Auckland, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Academic background
Doctoral advisorBruce Biggs
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland

Margaret Shirley Mutu is a Ngāti Kahu leader, author and academic from Karikari, New Zealand and works at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is Māori and her iwi (tribes) are Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Whātua.

Biography and education

Mutu was born in Auckland.[1] Her mother Penelope Brough-Robertson was Pākehā of Scottish descent and was a nurse at National Women's Hospital.[2] Her father Tame / Tom Mutu was brought up in the Northern Wairoa outside Dargaville and was Māori affiliating with Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Whātua, all iwi from the Northland Region of New Zealand.[1][2] The schools she attended whilst growing up in Mount Roskill, Auckland were Waikowhai Primary School and Mt Roskill Intermediate. After her father died Mutu went to schooling in New Plymouth, at New Plymouth Girls’ High boarding at the Rangiātea Methodist Māori Girls hostel.[2]

Mutu obtained a BSc in Mathematics, a MPhil in Māori Studies, a PhD in Māori Studies from the University of Auckland specialising in linguistics.[3][4] Her doctoral thesis was titled Aspects of the structure of the Ùa Pou dialect of the Marquesan language.[5]

Career

Mutu is Professor of Māori Studies at the University of Auckland.[6] She has taught Māori language and Treaty of Waitangi courses since 1986.[7] Mutu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand elected in 2017.[3][8]

Mutu holds a number of chairperson roles including of the Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu (the council of representatives, or parliament, of the Ngāti Kahu iwi or nation),[7] Ngāti Kahu's head claimant and chief negotiator for treaty claims settlements, and spokesperson to the media, a member of National Iwi Chairs' Forum (representing Ngāti Kahu).[9] She is chairperson of Matike Mai Aotearoa: The Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation, convened by Moana Jackson,[10] and chairperson of the Aotearoa Independent Monitoring Mechanism which monitors New Zealand's compliance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.[11] She has been the chairperson of Karikari marae and Kapehu marae (in the Northern Wairoa).[12]

Memberships of committees and boards include the New Zealand Conservation Authority, the board of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), the Board of Enquiry into the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement and a technical committee of the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity.[12] From 2009 to 2015 Mutu was a member the editorial board of AlterNative - A Journal of Indigenous Scholarship.[13]

Honours and awards

In 2015, the Royal Society of New Zealand awarded Mutu the Pou Aronui Award "for her sustained contributions to indigenous rights and scholarship".[14]

In 2017, Mutu was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[15]

Bibliography

Books

  • Mutu, Margaret, Lloyd Pōpata, Te Kani Williams, Ānahera Herbert-Graves, Reremoana Rēnata, JudyAnn Cooze, Zarah Pineaha, Tania Thomas, Te Ikanui Kingi-Waiaua, Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu and Wackrow, Williams and Davies Ltd. 2017. Ngāti Kahu: Portrait of a Sovereign Nation. Wellington, Huia Publishers.
    ISBN 978-1-77550-304-0
  • Mutu, Margaret, 2011. The State of Māori Rights. Wellington,
    ISBN 978-1-86969-437-1
  • Mutu, Margaret and McCully Matiu. 2003. Te Whānau Moana – Ngā kaupapa me ngā tikanga – Customs and protocols. Auckland,
    ISBN 0790008394
  • Mutu, Margaret. 2002. Ūa Pou: Aspects of a Marquesan dialect. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
    ISBN 0858835266

Journal articles

Book chapters

Report

  • Jackson, Moana, 2016. And Margaret Mutu, He Whakaaro Here Whakaumu Mō Aotearoa: The Report of Matike Mai Aotearoa – The Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation. Auckland, University of Auckland and National Iwi Chairs Forum. 125 pages.

References

  1. ^ a b "Mutu, Margaret, active 1986-2000s". National Library of New Zealand. 1 January 1986. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Husband, Dale (12 December 2015). "Margaret Mutu: They told me I'd know how to beat these Pākehā". E-Tangata. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b "New Zealand Parliament". 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
  4. ^ "Author Interview: Margaret Mutu". Manoa Hawaii. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
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  6. ^ "Margaret Mutu | Māori Studies (Te Wānanga o Waipapa)". 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
  7. ^ a b "Chairperson | Ngāti Kahu". ngatikahu.iwi.nz. 2011. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
  8. ^ "News and opinion". The University of Auckland. 22 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  9. ^ "Home - Sharing the vision of Kotahitanga". Iwi Chairs Forum - Sharing the vision of Kotahitanga. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Constitutional Working Group - Sharing the vision of Kotahitanga". Iwi Chairs Forum - Sharing the vision of Kotahitanga. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Converge". Archived from the original on 14 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Chairperson". Ngāti Kahu. Archived from the original on 23 February 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Professor Margaret Mutu". The University of Auckland. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  14. Royal Society of New Zealand. 10 November 2015. Archived from the original
    on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  15. ^ "Margaret Mutu". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
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