WEBINAR: Ngāpuhi Speaks: Informing us on key sovereignty issues

🌱 Formal Presentation with Susan Healy, Ingrid Huygens + JJ Carberry

In terms of sovereignty, the Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu claim regarding He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi is the most significant claim to the Waitangi Tribunal.

Ngāpuhi Speaks (2012) is an independent report on the hearing of this claim and was commissioned by Ngāpuhi kuia and kaumātua. While it comes to similar conclusions to the Tribunal’s report (2014), it more faithfully captures the evidence of the Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu speakers.

Ngāpuhi Speaks is being used by a number of educational providers as an important resource for understanding the history and intentions of He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

In this session, two of the co-authors along with others who use Ngāpuhi Speaks as a resource will comment on the significance of the report and demonstrate how it is being used in education.

Healy, S., Huygens, I., & Murphy, T. (2012). Ngāpuhi Speaks: He Wakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Independent Report on Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu Claim. Whangārei: Te Kawariki & Network Waitangi Whangarei.

★ DR SUSAN HEALY ★

Susan Healy, of Irish, English and Cornish descent, has been engaged in research and teaching on issues related to Te Tiriti o Waitangi since 1984. Her PhD dissertation in Māori Studies from the University of Auckland is entitled The Nature of the Relationship of the Crown in New Zealand with Iwi Māori. Susan was a member of the Independent Panel who wrote Ngāpuhi Speaks: He Wakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Independent Report on the Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu Claim. She is editor of Listening to the People of the Land: Christianity, Colonisation and the Path to Redemption (2019). Susan has been an active member of Tāmaki Treaty Workers for over 20 years.

★ DR INGRID HUYGENS ★

Ingrid is a Pākehā New Zealander of Dutch descent. Her PhD examined Processes of Pākehā change in response to the Treaty of Waitangi (University of Waikato, 2007). With Susan Healy and Takawai Murphy she co-authored the landmark report Ngāpuhi Speaks He Wakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Independent Report on the Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu Claim (2012). Ingrid is national coordinator of the Tangata Tiriti – Treaty People educational programme which recently published The Easy Read book about the Treaty of Waitangi (2019). She has been a Treaty educator since 1989, and facilitates Treaty workshops around the country with organisations and communities.

★ JOHN-JAMES (JJ) CARBERRY ★

He uri ahau o Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, o Ngāti Porou hoki. Ko Ngāti Muretu, Ngaitāneroa, Ngāti Rangi me Te Whānau a Hinerupe ngā hapū.

I currently serve as a Maori politics and policy lecturer at Te Putahi a Toi, School of Maori Knowledges, Massey University, as a Tiriti o Waitangi specialist for the Deputy Vice Chancellor Maori Office, Massey University, and as a senior educator of Te Ata Kura Educators, a branch of our community political group Te Ata Kura (Society for Conscientisation). As a Te Ata Kura educator I have been engaged in delivering Tiriti o Waitangi and decolonisation workshops across tertiary, community and public sector/government contexts to Maori, Pakeha and Tauiwi immigrants. Ngapuhi Speaks is a core text in our Tiriti o Waitangi tertiary courses and community workshops, and provides significant insight for students and participants into the historical context leading up to and beyond the signing of te Tiriti.

★LIVESTREAM DETAILS ★

Here the links you need to participate on Saturday. Please register so we can keep you up-to-date with any changes or notices.

Livestream: http://bit.ly/decol2020-livestream
Discussion/Q&A on Te Tiriti-based Futures Facebook group: http://bit.ly/decol2020-discuss