NPM 8th Biennial International Indigenous Research Conference 
13 - 16 November 2018
Waipapa Marae and Owen G. Glenn Building
University of Auckland

Hon Kelvin Davis is New Zealand’s first Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti, Minister of Corrections, Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Education (Māori Education).

John Berger’s Ways of Seeing (1972) popularized the notion that looking is a political act. As a film maker, especially as an indigenous filmmaker, this is a powerful liberating idea.

It is hard to escape the reality that our climate is rapidly changing – in the natural world, and other wise.

Indigenous economic empowerment is arguably one of the least understood or acknowledged opportunities to spur  national and international economies.

Our iwi, hāpu and whānau have long been expressing their cultural identity through traditional mediums and forms of artistic cultural practices, embodying our language and  knowledges; passing thi

Te Rangakura Mātauranga Māori – he āputa, he  ango, he houru.

Over the past 30 years New Zealand has been engaged in the settlement of Treaty of Waitangi Claims brought against the Crown by Maori tribes.