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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 25, 2023 7:36:22 GMT 12
$20,000 ROCKET LAB SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED TO ASPIRING YOUNG MĀORI DOCTORRocket Lab USA Inc, (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leading launch and space systems company, has today awarded its $20,000 Rocket Lab Scholarship to a student determined to make a difference in health for Māori..... www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2302/S00349/20-000-rocket-lab-scholarship-awarded-to-aspiring-young-maori-doctor.htmLAW LECTURER WINS SCHOLARSHIP FOR MĀORI FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE RESEARCHUniversity of Canterbury (UC) law lecturer, Rachael Evans, has been awarded an $80,000 scholarship for PhD research investigating how iwi can exercise rangatiratanga (sovereignty or autonomy) through the development of fiscal authority. “Before colonisation, iwi and hapū with tino rangatiratanga were active political and economic entities making their own decisions according to their tikanga (law) and kawa (rules). They engaged in different forms of economic activity including agriculture, trade and warfare, but were economically self-sustainable,” said Ms Evans. Colonisation imposed new systems and intergenerational poverty, which 35 years of Treaty Settlements has had mixed success in alleviating, she says...... insidegovernment.co.nz/law-lecturer-wins-scholarship-for-maori-financial-independence-research/
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