Papers from the World Indigenous People's Conference:

New Zealand's 1989 Education Act has resulted in a range of educational reforms. These reforms have offered the Maori opportunities to bring about positive educational developments for their people. Devolution of educational responsibility from a regional to a local level provided some of the space quickly utilized by the Maori. The requirement that university charters address the educational aspirations of all the community resulted in Massey University developing a charter referring to the rights and obligations in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. Subsequently, Maori participation in Massey University courses has increased. Changes on the research front have made it possible to engage in work that is valued equally by the researchers and the Maori participants who provide the necessary data. The research project Te Hoe Nuku Roa has developed an integrated framework that allows those factors impacting Maori to be given weighted representation. One factor is Maori cultural identity. Data from surveys of 102 households in th