Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 13, 2016 17:22:15 GMT 12
PROF RURU SHEDDING HER 'UNEASE'
Prof Jacinta Ruru yesterday recalled finding the study of law ``both shocking and fascinating''.
Growing up walking the national park trails with her mother and ``scrambling along neighbouring mountain tracks with Dad, who mined for scheelite and hunted possums'', she knew these places were of significance to Ngai Tahu, but the general public saw them only through the ``overlaid English names and the Department of Conservation''.
The Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act in 1998 captured her attention, and she wanted to understand why lands ``so obviously important to Maori were locked up in national parks'' with a legal ethos premised ``entirely on mono-cultural Pakeha values for protecting land''.
But completely absent was ``the Maori relationship with these lands''....
www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/prof-ruru-shedding-her-unease
Prof Jacinta Ruru yesterday recalled finding the study of law ``both shocking and fascinating''.
Growing up walking the national park trails with her mother and ``scrambling along neighbouring mountain tracks with Dad, who mined for scheelite and hunted possums'', she knew these places were of significance to Ngai Tahu, but the general public saw them only through the ``overlaid English names and the Department of Conservation''.
The Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act in 1998 captured her attention, and she wanted to understand why lands ``so obviously important to Maori were locked up in national parks'' with a legal ethos premised ``entirely on mono-cultural Pakeha values for protecting land''.
But completely absent was ``the Maori relationship with these lands''....
www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/prof-ruru-shedding-her-unease