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] In 2015, she was awarded the Pou Aronui Award "for her sustained contributions to indigenous rights and scholarship".^[7]

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

1. "New Zealand Parliament". 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
2. "Margaret Mutu | Te Hiku Forum". tehiku.maori.nz. 2011. Archived from the original on May 24, 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
3. "New Zealand Parliament". 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
4. "Margaret Mutu | Māori Studies (Te Wānanga o Waipapa)". 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
5. "Chairperson | Ngāti Kahu". ngatikahu.iwi.nz. 2011. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
6. "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.
7. "Spotlight on top New Zealand researchers" (Press release). Royal Society of New Zealand. 10 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.