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Linda Tuhiwai Smith


Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith CNZM (née Mead) is a professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. The daughter of Hirini Moko Mead, she affiliates to the Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou iwi.

Smith is the author of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (Zed Books, 1999 and 2012), a critical analysis of the role of Western scholarly research played in the process of colonization of indigenous cultures. This work is considered a major contribution to research methods in social justice research.

In the 2013 New Year Honours, Smith was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori and education.



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