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Massey University's Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards have been held annually since 2009 to formally recognise Māori literature.

This year 16 books are finalists in the arts, biography and history, fiction, non-fiction, and te reo Māori categories and two of these books have ties to Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.

Living by the Moon: Te Maramataka o Te Whānau-ā-Apanui was written by Wiremu Tawhai and is a finalist in the Te Kōrero Pono (Non-fiction) section.

The Native Planet documentary series tells stories of the unique spiritual connection First Peoples have with mother earth and their passion to defend it - and this past month they started screening the first season of this series in Canada.

Episode One was filmed in 2013 and documents host Simon Baker and the Native Planet team as they travel to New Zealand and with the assistance of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, record how science and indigenous knowledge are combining to offer hope to a small North island hāpu and their sacred lake.

Ten NPM Research Internship projects have recently been confirmed for the 2014-2015 summer, and student internship applications can be now be made.

The following projects have been selected:

- Māori Law Stories (Khylee Quince) Based in Auckland this research project will focus on a book which will tell the stories behind a number of historical and contemporary legal cases involving Māori.

Kia ora koutou,

On Sunday 14th September & Monday 16th September, the symposium - Whakarongo ki a Tangaroa - He Tohu! - centred around the 2011 Rena disaster is running at Ōtamarākau Marae in the Bay of Plenty, bringing research from the 'ivory towers' back to the pa and home communities.

The preliminary programme for the 2014 International Indigenous Development Research Conference has now been released.

This programme (attached for download below) includes our now confirmed keynote speakers and presentations over the four days of the conference, which runs from Tuesday 25th November through to Friday 28th November.

Over 190 speakers will present throughout the conference, in a combination of parallel and panel presentations, poster presentations, round tables and of course our keynotes.

Māori are more likely to be assessed and treated by a health practitioner trained within a western cultural system that pays little attention to Māori worldviews and continue to experience misdiagnosis, non-voluntary admissions, inappropriate psychometric testing, high suicide rates, limited choices, differences in medication regimes and poorer treatment outcomes.

10 Years of AlterNative!

The latest issue of the journal (Volume 10, issue 3) is now available online and in print.

Topics in this issue are extremely diverse and cover Latin American history, indigenous education, identity, social movements, historical and intergenerational trauma, game design, research ethics in health and ageing research and environmental impact assessment.

Professor Michael Walker (Whakatōhea) ONZM, a founding Joint Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM), New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence, has been invited to deliver the opening address of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) General Assembly on the 30th August, 2014.

This Saturday at the Auckland Museum Professor Walker will give the opening keynote presentation to this pre-eminent group of scientists, who are visiting the country for next week’s 31st ICSU General Assembly.

Tekiteora Rolleston-Gabel was chosen by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga to attend the 8th Asian Science Camp in Singapore this year.

Currently a student at Ngā Taiātea Wharekura, Hamilton's only Māori-language immersion secondary school, Tekiteora is in her final year at school studying biology and chemistry.