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

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). Kelvin Davis is a successful former teacher and school Principal who turned a struggling Northland school around, and enabled the students to achieve beyond their potential.

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. Understanding the ways in which the colonial gaze transforms and takes possession of our production is critical for an autonomous, sovereign film practice.

It is hard to escape the reality that our climate is rapidly changing – in the natural world, and other wise. We are already experiencing the confluence of impacts from a dramatically warming planet: an acidic ocean, massive shifts in rainfall, intensity and duration of storms and fires, climate induced war and mass migration, and declines in agriculture and wild fish stocks.

Indigenous economic empowerment is arguably one of the least understood or acknowledged opportunities to spur  national and international economies. This presentation examines the complex combination of multi-faceted issues  which inform Indigenous economic development.

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 this down from one generation to another. It has also been utilised as a traditional form to express emotion such as anger, love, sadness and desire.

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. These settlements have varied greatly in quantum and in their particular terms as a consequence of the differences in their historic circumstances.