Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Linda Tuhiwai Smith  

USmith wazalelwa e -Whakatāne, endaweni yase New Zealand. Uyise wayengu-Sidney Moko Mead waseNgāti Awa, naye onguProfesa, kanti unina wayengu-June Te Rina Mead, owazalelwa eWalker, waseI-Ngāti Porou. Wanikezwa igama elithi Tuhiwai lapho esemdala. USmith uhlangene ne-iwi yamaMaori I-Ngāti Awa ne-I-Ngāti Porou evela eMpumalanga yeNorth Island endaweni yase-New Zealand.

Ngesikhathi  uSmith esemusha, wathuthela e-zweni lase Melika ngenkathi uyise eqeda i-PhD yakhe. Umndeni wakhe wawuhlala eNingizimu ye-I-Illinois futhi wafunda e-Carbondale Community High School. USmith wathuthela eSalem, eMassachusetts, lapho wasebenza khona njengomsizi ePeabody Museum yaseSalem, ebhala amalebula ngaphansi komhlaba.Linda Tuhiwai Smith 

Ngonyaka ka 1970, uSmith wayeyilungu elasungula iqembu elishisekela izishoshovu iNgá Tamatoa. Waba nomthelela  kwimibhalo ka  UMalcolm X UFrantz Fanon. Indima yakhe kuNgā Tamatoa kwakuwukukhulumisana nabantu baseMaori ngeSivumelwano saseWaitangi. USmith wabona imfundo njengengxenye ebaluleke kakhulu yomzabalazo wase AmaMaori wenkululeko. Wayeyilungu leNgā Tamatoa ngenkathi engumfundi waseyunivesithi.

USmith wathola iziqu ze-BA,neziqu  ze -MA , neze-PhD e-Nyuvesi yase Auckland. Isihloko sakhe sika-1996 sasinesihloko esithi Ngā aho o te ikoni matauranga: izingqimba eziningi zokulwa kwamaMaori emfundweni.

USmith ungumphathi-jikelele wamaMaori, umphathi weSikole samaMaori nePacific Development, nomqondisi we-Te Kotahi Research Institute e-University of Waikato.

Incwadi kaSmith ethi Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples yanyatheliswa okokuqala ngo-1999.

Ngonyaka ka-2013 New Year Honours, uSmith waqokwa njengoMngane we-New Zealand Order of Merit ngezinsizakalo zamaMaori nemfundo. Ngo-2017, uSmith wakhethwa njengomunye wabantu beRoyal Society Te Aparangi "Abesifazane abangu-150 ngamazwi angu-150", egubha iminikelo yabesifazane olwazini eNew Zealand.

NgoLwezi 2016 waqokwa njengelungu le-Waitangi Tribunal. Ngalowo nyaka athatha ngawo umhlalaphansi, wabekwa njengephini lika-chancellor yamaMaori futhi wathatha inkontileka yesikhashana njengoProfesa weMaori ne-Indigenous Studies eFaculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies eyayisanda kwakhiwa.

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