Margaret Mutu

Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Whātua

1953 -



Margaret Mutu was born in Auckland and attended Waikōwhai Primary School and Mt Roskill Intermediate School. She continued her education at New Plymouth Girls’ High School boarding Rangiātea Māori Girls’ Hostel and later Scotlands at the High School. She studied at the University of Auckland completing a BSc in pure and applied mathematics (1973), and an MPhil in Māori Studies (1983). In 1983 she was awarded a Mana Motuhake (Naumai) Doctoral Scholarship and an ASB Postgraduate Scholarship to commence studies for a PhD and in 1984 a University Grants Committee Postgraduate Scholarship, a Ngarimu VC and 28th Māori Battalion Postgraduate Scholarship and a research internship at the East-West Center to study at the University of Hawai’i and the University of Auckland. She graduated PhD in Māori Studies and linguistics in 1990. Margaret taught mathematics and Māori studies at Epsom Girls’ Grammar School in 1974 and 1975, mathematics part-time at Auckland Institute of Technology in the late 1970s and early 1980s before taking up a lectureship in Māori Studies at the University of Auckland in 1986. There she has been teaching and conducting research on Māori language, tikanga, history and traditions, rights and sovereignty, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and treaty claims against the English Crown, the treaty claims settlement process, constitutional transformation and Māori-Chinese encounters. In 1994 she received a University of Auckland Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2001 she was appointed Head of Department of Māori Studies, a role she continued in until 2013. In 2002 she was appointed Professor of Māori Studies. She was a Visiting Fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at Australian National University in 2001 and a Visiting Professor in the Postgraduate School of International Affairs, University of Le Havre in France in 2007 and in the Departments of Native American Studies, Linguistics and Anthropology at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA in 2009. In 2015 Margaret was awarded the Pou Aronui Medal by Royal Society of New Zealand for distinguished service to the humanities-aronui over a sustained period of time and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi in 2017. Margaret has been the chair of Kāpehu marae in the Northern Wairoa since 1992, of Karikari marae in the Far North since 2004 and of Ngāti Kahu’s parliament, Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu since 2002. She represented Ngāti Kahu on Māori Congress in the 1990s, on National Iwi Chairs Forum since 2005, in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues since 2009 and represents National Iwi Chairs Forum at meetings of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Margaret writes non-fiction books, articles, book chapters and keynote presentations on a range of issues affecting Māori and is called on frequently by local, national and international media to provide information and expert commentary.

Biographical sources

  • Email from Professor Margaret Mutu 12 February 2018.

    Non-fiction

  • “Māori Issues” published annually from 1995 to 2018 in The Contemporary Pacific - A Journal of Island Affairs. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Vols. 7-30, No. 1.
  • Published annually from 1995 to 2018.
  • Tāne-nui-ā-Rāngi: Opened 20 February 1988, The University of Auckland. Auckland, N.Z.: U of Auckland, 2008. First published 1988.
  • "Cultural Misunderstanding or Deliberate Mistranslation?" in Te Reo (Journal of the Linguistics Society of New Zealand), 1992. 57-103.
  • Tuku Whenua or Land Sale? The Pre-Treaty Land Transactions in Muriwhenua. Wellington, Booker's, 1993. 48 pp plus appendices.
  • Muriwhenua - Crown Alliances. Wellington, Bookers, 1993. 51pp plus appendices.
  • "Māori Science and the Crown Research Institutes of Aotearoa/New Zealand" in Science of the Pacific Peoples, eds. J.Morrison, Paul Geraghty and Linda Crowl. Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific, 1994. 151-7
  • Marsden Point Terminal Proposal: Cultural Assessment: Views of Tangata Whenua In Respect of the Proposed Port Developed at Marsden Point: A Report. [Wellington, N.Z.}; Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, [1995].
  • Prepared for the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment by Margaret Mutu.
  • “Barriers to Research: The Constraints of Imposed Frameworks” in He Pukenga Korero – A Journal of Māori Studies. 4.1 Palmerston North: Te Putahi-a-Toi, Massey University, 1998. 9-18.
  • “Māori Customary Fishing Rights” in Fisheries and Commodifying Iwi: Economics, Politics & Colonisation Vol 3. University of Auckland, International Research Institute for Māori and Indigenous Education (IRI), 1998. 58 – 64.
  • "Tuku Whenua and Land Sale in New Zealand in the 19th Century" in Voyages and Beaches - Pacific Encounters 1769 - 1840. Eds Alex Calder, J.Lamb and B.Orr. Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 1999. 317-328.
  • “Ko Pūwheke te Maunga – Puwheke is the mountain - Māori language and Māori ethnic identity – Redefining identity through language revitalisation” in He Pukenga Korero – A Journal of Māori Studies.Vol.6, No.2. Palmerston North, Te Putahi-a-Toi, Massey University, 2001. 1-8.
  • ‘Ua Pou: Aspects of a Marquesan Dialect. Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002.
  • Co-authors Margaret Mutu with Ben Te’ikitutoua.
  • “Barriers to tangata whenua participation in resource management” Merata Kawharu (ed.) Whenua: Managing our resources. Auckland, Reed, 2002. 75-95.
  • Te Whanau Moana: Nga Kaupapa Me Nga Tikanga/Customs and Protocols/ The Teachings of McCully Matiu kaumatua rangatira of Te Whanau Moana and Ngati Kahu as Told to Margaret Mutu. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 2003.
  • Co-authors McCully Matiu and Margaret McCully.
  • “The Humpty Dumpty Principle at work: The role of mistranslation in the British Settlement of Aotearoa. ‘He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni’ and ‘The Declaration of Independence’ Sabine Fenton (ed.) For better or for worse: Translation as a tool for change in the Pacific. Manchester UK, St Jerome, 2004. 11-36.
  • “Researching the Pacific” Tupeni Baba et al (eds). Researching the Pacific. Auckland, Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Auckland, 2004. 54-62.
  • “Recovering Fagin’s ill-gotten gains: Settling Ngāti Kahu’s Treaty of Waitangi claims against the Crown” Michael Belgrave, Merata Kawharu and David Williams (eds) Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi. Melbourne, Australia, Oxford University Press, 2005. 187-209.
  • “In Search of the Missing Māori Links – Maintaining both ethnic identity and linguistic integrity in the revitalization of the Māori language” in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Vol 172. New York, Mouton, 2005. 117-132.
  • “Recovering and Developing Ngāti Kahu’s Prosperity” Malcolm Mulholland (ed) State of the Māori Nation. Auckland, Reed, 2006. 127-140.
  • “Māori Media Depiction of Chinese: From Despised and Feared to Cultural and Political Allies” Manying Ip (ed) The Dragon and the Taniwha. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2009. 236-274.
  • “The Role of History and Oral Traditions in the Recovery of Fagin’s Ill-gotten Gains: Settling Ngāti Kahu’s Claims against the Crown” in Te Pouhere Kōrero Journal: Māori History, Māori People, 2009. 23-44.
  • “Constitutional Intentions: The Treaty Text” Mulholland, Malcolm and Veronica Tāwahi (eds). Weeping Waters, Wellington, Huia, 2010. 13-40
  • “Ngāti Kahu Kaitiakitanga” Malcolm Mulholland, Rachel Selby, Pataka Moore (eds) Māori and the Environment: Kaitiaki. Wellington, Huia, 2010. 13-36.
  • The State of Māori Rights. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2011.
  • “There’s Racism and then There’s Racism – Margaret Mutu and the Racism Debate” in The New Zealand Journal of Media Studies Vol.12 No.2, 2011. 1-19.
  • “Custom Law and the Advent of New Pākehā Settlers: Tuku Whenua Allocation of Resource Use Rights” in Danny Keenan (ed.) Huia Histories of Māori: Ngā Tāhuhu Kōrero. Wellington, Huia, 2012. 93-108.
  • “Fisheries Settlement: The Sea I Never Gave” Janine Hayward and Nicola Wheen (eds) Treaty of Waitangi Settlements. Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 2012. 114-123.
  • “Ceding Mana, Rangatiratanga and Sovereignty to the Crown: The Crown Deeds of Settlement for Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri and Ngāi Takoto” published in the Northland Age, Kaitāia, 6 to 27 March 2012.
  • “Academic bashing in the media – a first-hand account” in The Conversation, 6 February 2012 available at http://theconversation.edu.au/academic-bashing-in-the-media-a-first-hand-account-4841
  • “Indigenizing the University of Auckland” in Canadian Journal of Native Education: Indigenizing the International Academy. Vol.37, No. 1, Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 2014. 63 – 85.
  • “Unravelling Colonial Weaving” Paul Little and Wendyl Nissen (eds) Stroppy Old Women. Auckland, Paul Little Books. 2015. 165-178.
  • 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, 2016. 125 pages. Co-authored with Moana Jackson (lead author).
  • Ngāti Kahu: Portrait of a Sovereign Nation: History, Traditions and Tiriti o Waitangi Claims: Kia Hakapūmau tonu te Mana o ngā Hapū o Ngāti Kahu: Ngāti Kahu Deed of Partial Settlement. Wellington, Huia, 2017.
  • Co-authored with Lloyd Pōpata, Te Kani Williams, Ānahera Herbert-Graves, Te Ikanui Kingi-Waiaua, Reremoana Rēnata, JudyAnn Cooze, Zarrah Pineaha, Tania Thomas, Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu and Wackrow, Williams, Davies Ltd.
  • “Māori of New Zealand” in Sharlotte Neely (ed) Native Nations: The Survival of Fourth World Peoples, 2nd edition. Vernon, British Columbia, Canada, JCharlton Publishing, 2017. 87-113.
  • “Behind the Smoke and Mirrors of the Treaty of Waitangi Claims Settlement Process in New Zealand: No Prospect for Justice and Reconciliation for Māori without Constitutional Transformation” in Journal of Global Ethics, 2018
  • Other

  • The Rating of Māori Land in Te Taitokerau. Whangarei, Maori Land Court, 1991. 24pp. Co-authored with Te A. Beaumont, L. Collier, A. Lesley, M. Murray, K. Prime, H. R. Rapata, N. Smith.
  • Co-authored with Te A. Beaumont, L. Collier, A. Lesley, M. Murray, K. Prime, H. R. Rapata, N. Smith.
  • Report and Recommendations of the Board of Inquiry into the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement. Wellington, Department of Conservation, 1994. Co-authored by Arnold Turner (chair), Colin McNab, Denis Nugent and Maui Solomon.
  • Marsden Point Terminal Proposal Cultural Assessment. Wellington, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, 1995. 32 pp. plus appendices.
  • Report to the Minister of Maori Affairs on the New Zealand Conservation Authority. Wellington, New Zealand Conservation Authority, 1995. 11 pp.
  • Ngati Kahu Land Claims Settlement Packages. Kaitaia, Te Runanga-a-Iwi o Ngati Kahu and the Office of Treaty Settlements, 2000. 26pp. plus 68pp. appendices.
  • Carrington Farms Māori Values Assessment. Auckland, Māori Studies Department, University of Auckland, 2001. 50pp. plus appendices.
  • Affidavit to the Waitangi Tribunal in the national claim WAI 1071 for the Foreshore and Seabed, 2004. 52pp.
  • Submission to the Fisheries and Other Sea-related Legislation Select Committee on the Foreshore and Seabed Bill, 2004. 62pp
  • “Evidence of Professor Margaret Mutu on behalf of the Appellant” in Nga Uri o Wiremu Moromona Raua Ko Whakarongohau Pita Incorporated v. Kingsford Barker and Associates and the Far North District Council in the Environment Court, Auckland, 2007.
  • “Affidavit of Professor Margaret Mutu in Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu versus Carrington Farms Ltd et al” in the High Court of New Zealand, Whāngarei, 2010. Pp.1-8 plus attachments.
  • “Evidence of Professor Margaret Mutu in Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu versus Carrington Farms Ltd and the Far North District Council” in the Environment Court ENV-2009-AKL-000450, 2010. Pp.1-40 plus attachments.
  • “Summary of Evidence of Professor Margaret Mutu” in Application for remedies on behalf of Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu, Wai 45. Wellington, Justice Department, Waitangi Tribunal, 2012. 11 pages.
  • “Final Brief of Evidence 31 August 2012” in Application for remedies on behalf of Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu, Wai 45 Doc. #R60. Wellington, Justice Department, Waitangi Tribunal. 8 pages plus appendices.
  • “Brief of Evidence 29 August 2012” in Application for remedies on behalf of Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu, Wai 45. Wellington, Justice Department, Waitangi Tribunal. 31 pages plus appendices.
  • “Brief of Evidence 13 July 2012” in Application for remedies on behalf of Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu, Wai 45 Doc. #R18. Wellington, Justice Department, Waitangi Tribunal. 54 pages plus appendices.
  • “Brief of Evidence 2 July 2012” in Application for remedies on behalf of Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu, Wai 45 Doc. #R17. Wellington, Justice Department, Waitangi Tribunal. 114 pages plus appendices.
  • “Affidavit of Professor Margaret Mutu 24 February 2012” in Application for remedies on behalf of Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu, Wai 45 Doc. #R11. Wellington, Justice Department, Waitangi Tribunal. 64 pages plus appendices.
  • “Submission on behalf of Ngāti Kahu to the Māori Affairs Select Committee on Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill”. Wellington, Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, 2015. 23 pages.
  • Brief of Evidence of Professor Margaret Mutu in the Waitangi Tribunal, Wai 1040 Te Paparahi o Te Raki Inquiry. Wellington, Justice Department, Waitangi Tribunal, 2016. 47 pages.
  • Papers/Presentations

  • “Communications Issues facing Tangata Whenua in the Battle for the Foreshore and Seabed.” Invited Keynote paper to the International Conference of the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand. Auckland, 6 May.
  • “Kāti te tāhae it ō mātou whenua! Stop stealing our land: The Battle over the Foreshore and Seabed”. Invited Keynote presentation to Taura Here o Ngāpuhi ki Waitākere hui, 6 March.
  • “Māori Concepts of Justice”. Invited Keynote Presentation to Department of Social Development regional conference. Auckland, 30 April.
  • “An Overview of Theoretical Orientation to Polynesian Syntax.” In Harlow, Ray and Robin Hooper (eds) FICAL - the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Auckland, the Linguistics Society of New Zealand, 1988.
  • “The Rating and Valuation of Māori Land: A Case Study”. Massey University, Albany, Institute of Valuers, 1993.
  • "Rating and Valuation of Māori Land in Te Taitokerau." Institute of Valuers Conference "Issues Pertaining to the Valuation of Māori Land." Massey University, Palmerston North,1993 .
  • “Māori Participation in Conservation and Resource Management in Aotearoa/New Zealand”. Wellington, New Zealand Conservation Authority, 1994.
  • “Māori Words Used in Conservation and Resource Management”. Wellington, New Zealand Conservation Authority, 1994.
  • “The New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement from a Māori Point of View” in Coastal Planning Seminar May 1994. Christchurch, Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand.
  • “Māori and Marine Biodiversity”. International Workshop on Marine Biodiversity. Paris, SBSTA, United Nations Convention on Biodiversity, 1995.
  • “Working in Science - A Frustrating Experience” in the Proceedings of the Inaugural NAMMSATT Conference. Wellington, The Ministry of Māori Development, 1996.
  • “The Treaty of Waitangi - The Imperatives” in the Proceedings of the conference “Fit for the Future – A Viable Workforce for Aotearoa/New Zealand”. Auckland, The Equal Employment Opportunities Trust, 1997.
  • “Whaia te Mātauranga: The Differing Approaches of Western Science and Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge: Interactions between Māori and New Zealand Scientists”. Paper delivered at International Conference of Indigenous Peoples and Scientists on “Diversity as a Resource” held in Rome, Italy 2-5 March 1998.
  • “Illustrating the Role of Linguistics in Preserving and Enhancing the Māori Language” in Fischer, Stephen Roger and Wolfgang B. Sperlich (eds) Leo Pasifika – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Niue, 5th-9th July 1999. Auckland, The Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures.
  • “Penultimate Vowel Extension in Marquesan” in Fischer, Stephen Roger and Wolfgang B. Sperlich (eds) Leo Pasifika – Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Niue, 5th-9th July 1999. Auckland, The Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures.
  • “Iwi Expectations of Māori Lawyers” Invited Presentation to Conference on The Role of Lawyers in Iwi Development held in Auckland, 29 August to 1 September 2001.
  • “Researching the Pacific”. Invited Opening Address to the Inaugural Pacific Postgraduate Students’ Symposium on Researching the Pacific, 13 September 2002.
  • “The Iwi Authorities and Local Authorities of Te Taitokerau: Building a new relationship based on concepts of justice”. Invited Opening Keynote presentation to hui of Taitokerau Iwi and Northland Local Authorities, Kaikohe, July 2003.
  • “Ngāti Kahu Statement on the New Zealand Government’s Foreshore and Seabed Proposal” presented at Karepōnia marae, Far North on 8 November 2003.
  • “Taitokerau Opening Statement on the New Zealand Government’s Foreshore and Seabed Proposal” presented at Te Tii Mangōnui, Bay of Islands, November 2003.
  • “Māori Concepts of Justice”. Invited Keynote Presentation to the University of the New Age, West Auckland, 10 March 2003.
  • “Research Ethics associated with Treaty of Waitangi Claims and the Foreshore and Seabed Legislation.” In Tikanga Rangahau, Mātauranga Tuku Iho: Traditional Knowledge and Research Ethics International Conference Proceedings. Wellington, 10 June 2004. 154-162.
  • “Te Wānanga o Waipapa, University of Auckland”. Opening Keynote address to the Māori Studies Subject Conference, University of Auckland, 23 November 2004.
  • “Kāti te tāhae i tō mātou whenua! Stop stealing our lands! Ngāti Kahu’s response to the Foreshore and Seabed Bill”. Invited Keynote presentation to Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Whakatane, 30 June 2004.
  • “The Treaty of Waitangi and its relevance to New Zealand research”, an invited Keynote presentation to Lincoln University Postgraduate Conference, 28 June 2004.
  • “He mahi tino hē te tāhae i nga whenua o te iwi Māori – It is very wrong to steal the lands of the Māori people: The Battle over the Foreshore and Seabed.” Invited Keynote presentation to Te Hui Amorangi, Whangarei, 3 April. Also presented 13 March 2004 at National Hui, Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland.
  • “Kaitiakitanga in Practice in Ngāti Kahu”. Invited Keynote presentation to Māori Youth Forum, Te Tī, Waitangi, 5 February 2004.
  • “Recovering the Crown’s Ill-gotten gains”. A paper presented at the Sixth Conference of the European Society for Oceanists Pacific Challenges: Questioning concepts, rethinking conflicts. Marseilles, Fance, 7 July 2005.
  • “Māori on the move - Where are we heading?” Opening Keynote presentation at Wellington Primary Principals' Conference: Unique - Our Place, Our Schools, Wellington, New Zealand, 6 April, 2005.
  • “Recovery of the Māori Language”. A invited keynote presentation published in the proceedings of the 2006 Austronesian Forum “Recovery of Indigenous Language”, National Pingtung University of Education, Pingtung, Taiwan 12-13 December 2006.
  • “Indigenous Sovereignty in New Zealand: The Māori Concept and Practice of tino rangatiratanga”. A invited keynote presentation to the American Philosophical Association Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA, 24 March 2006.
  • “The Māori Roots of a Multicultural New Zealand” Invited presentation to the Bananas NZ Going Global International Conference, University of Auckland Business School, 18-19 August 2007.
  • “Te Wānanga o Waipapa – Māori studies at the University of Auckland”. Invited Opening Keynote presentation delivered to the 2007 Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association Conference, Diversity in Indigenous/Native Studies Scholarship and Research, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 27-30 May 2007.
  • “The Role of History and Oral Traditions in the Recovery of Fagin”s Ill-gotten Gains: Settling Ngāti Kahu’s Treaty of Waitangi Claims against the Crown”. An invited keynote presentation to He Rau Tumu Kōrero Māori Historians’ Symposium, 29 August 2008.
  • “The Māori Roots of a Multicultural New Zealand”. Invited Keynote Presentation to the Second New Zealand Chinese Association Leadership and Development Conference, Lower Hutt, 21 January 2008.
  • “Rehabilitating Fagin and Recovering His Ill-gotten Gains”. An invited keynote presentation to the Challenging Land Loss: Indigenous Legal and Political responses to Land-grabbing International Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 15 August 2009.
  • “A History of Māori Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand”. An invited keynote presentation published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Indigenous Peoples’ Education and Policies, Taiwan, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, 30 April-2 May 2009.
  • “Recovering Ngāti Kahu’s lands from the Crown: Lands Administered by the Department of Conservation”. Invited presentation at Te Pourewa Arotahi Symposium on Managing Post-Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, Wellington, 30 November 2010.
  • “Ka ahu hakamua a Ngāti Kahu: How has the University of Auckland assisted Ngāti Kahu to realise our aspirations?” Invited Panel presentation to Tuia Te Ako 2010, Wellington, 13 August 2010.
  • “Recovering and Developing Ngāti Kahu’s Health, Wealth and Prosperity”. Invited keynote presentation to Māori Mai, Māori Atu: Grass Roots Oranga Hui for Ngā Ngaru Hauora: The National Māori Health Providers, Rotorua, 12 August 2010.
  • “Recovering and Developing Ngāti Kahu’s Prosperity: A Case Study in New Zealand Māori Future Planning”. Presentation to the European Society for Oceanists 2010 Conference, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 7 July 2010.
  • “The State of Māori Rights 1994-2009”. Invited presentation to Mātauranga Taketake: Traditional Knowledge Conference, University of Auckland, 9 June 2010.
  • “Settling Ngāti Kahu’s Claims Against the Crown”. Opening Keynote presentation to He Hui-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu in Redfern, Sydney, 30 March, and repeated at Casula, Sydney, 31 March, and Brisbane, 1 May 2010.
  • “The National Iwi Leaders’ Forum”. The Opening Keynote presentation to the Hui-ā-iwi mō Te Arawa Lakes Trust, Rotorua, 20 April 2010.
  • “The Māori Roots of a Multicultural New Zealand”. Invited Opening Keynote Presentation to the Fourth New Zealand Chinese Association Leadership and Development Conference, Lower Hutt, 24 January 2010.
  • “Settling the Historical Claims of the Five Iwi o Te Hiku o Te Ika”. Hui-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu at Taipā, Far North, 7 January 2010.
  • “Constitutional Transformation in Aotearoa/New Zealand”. Invited Keynote presentation to the Māori Mai, Māori Atu Conference, Rotorua, 16 November 2012.
  • “National Iwi Chairs Forum – An Update”. Invited Keynote presentation to the Māori Mai, Māori Atu Conference, Rotorua, 15 November 2012.
  • “National Iwi Chairs Forum”. Invited Keynote presentation to the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s Enhancing Māori Distinctiveness – The Contribution and Opportunity Symposium, Rotorua, 15 November 2012.
  • “Trick or Treaty at the University of Auckland?” Invited Keynote Address to the National Rural Education Symposium, Taumaranui, 25 October 2012.
  • “Constitutional Transformation: Gathering Māori Views”. Invited Keynote Presentation at the Pāremata Māori Commemorations, Papawai Marae, Greytown, 29 September 2012.
  • “Indigenizing the University of Auckland”. Invited Public Keynote Paper, Place, belonging and promise: Indigenizing the International Academy invited roundtable, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 9 May 2013.
  • “Te Tiriti o Waitangi in a Future Constitution: Removing the Shackles of Colonisation”. Invited Public Lecture, the annual Robson lecture, Napier City Council Chambers, 22 April 2013. Available on http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/shackles-of-colonisation.pdf [accessed 1 March 2015]
  • Constitutionalism and Te Tiriti o Waitangi: A Preliminary Report on the Work of the Iwi Constitutional Transformation Working Group. Presented at National Iwi Chairs' Forum, Waitangi, Northland, New Zealand. 4 - 5 February 2014. Presented with Moana Jackson.
  • Presented with Moana Jackson.
  • “Ngāti Kahu Kaitiakitanga meets Statoil and Shanghai Cred”, Symposuim on Iwi Experiences of the Extractive Industries, Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland, 11 June 2105, Invited presentation.
  • “New Possibilities for our Democratic Future: Matike Mai Aotearoa and its Proposal for Constitutional Transformation”, 2016 New Zealand Political Studies Association conference, University of Waikato, 28 November 2016, invited opening keynote.
  • “Matike Mai! Māori-led Constitutional Transformation in Aotearoa”, Symposium on New Forms of Political Organisation, University of Auckland, 4 October 2016, Invited Keynote.
  • “Constitutional Transformation in New Zealand – Matike Mai Aotearoa”, Native American Indian Studies Association Conference, University of Hawai`i at Mānao, Honolulu, Hawai`i, 18 May 2016. Invited presentation.
  • “Matike Mai! Māori-led Constitutional Transformation in Aotearoa”, Space, Race Bodies II, University of Otago, 6 May 2016, Invited Opening Keynote.
  • “Higher Education Leadership and Society – from a Ngāti Kahu perspective”, The National Higher Education Women’s Leadership Summit 2016, Stamford Plaza, Auckland 24 February 2016, Invited Keynote.
  • “What Do the Claimants Say? Preliminary Findings on the Impacts of the Treaty Claims Settlement Process on Māori”, National Iwi Chairs Forum, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, 30 November 2017. Invited presentation.
  • Invited presentation.
  • “Matike Mai! Implementing Indigenous-led Constitutional Transformation in Aotearoa/New Zealand”, 2017 Native American and Indigenous Studies International Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 24 June 2017.
  • “Unconscionable Fraud: The Role of Whiteness and Race in the Treaty Claims Settlement Process in New Zealand”, Race, Whiteness and Indigeneity International Conference, Surfers Paradise, Australia, 8 June 2017.
  • “Ngāti Kahu meets Shanghai CRED”, Taniwha Dragon Economic Summit, Hastings, 21 February 2017, invited presentation.
  • Reviews

  • Review of Te Marae: A Guide to Customs and Protocol by Hiwi and Pat Tauroa. In the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol 96, 1987.
  • Review of He Kōrero Pūrākau mō ngā Taunahatanga a ngā Tūpuna. Place Names of the Ancestors: A Māori Oral History Atlas compiled by Te Aue Davis. In the New Zealand Geographic, 1991.
  • Review of The Tribes of Muriwhenua by D. Urlich Cloher. Auckland, Auckland University Press, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 2003.
  • Theses

  • Aspects of the Structure of the Ua Pou Dialect of the Marquesan Language. Ph.D thesis, Māori Studies, U of Auckland, 1990.