Te Iwi Maori

Te Hoe Nuku Roa: A Journey Towards Maori Centered Research

This paper will focus on a project known as Best Outcomes For Māori: Te Hoe Nuku Roa Maori Profiles, a longitudinal Maori household project with a focus on Maori development in cultural, social and economic terms. This project is based on a cultural framework that has been formulated from ‘traditional’ principles. It provides a model for the interaction between Maori knowledge and mainstream so...

Te Mata o te Tai - the edge of the tide: rising capacity in information technology of Maori in Aotearoa-New Zealand

We can extract relevant lessons in the information technology era from our colonial past. One such lesson is to understand how information technologies might further impact on our knowledge. While there are many recent information technology projects they are often ad hoc and in “pilot” or “trial” mode, reducing any chance of sustainability or ‘proof of concept’. However, experience has taught ...

Breast cancer in Maori and non-Maori women.

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is more common in Maori than in non-Maori women under the age of 40 years and is equally common in older women, despite Maori being generally of lower socioeconomic status and having had a higher fertility rate than non-Maori. METHODS Data from a nationwide population-based case-control study of breast cancer in New Zealand women aged 25-54 years were used to compare ...

Maori attitudes toward abortion.

The aspirations of Maori: An exploratory study

This exploratory research examined the contributing influence of a range of contextual and individual variables on the prediction of education, occupation and income aspirations for Maori. Such variables included parental support, parental aspirations, personality, socioeconomic status, age, and Treaty of Waitangi claims settlements. Of particular interest was determining whether Treaty of Wait...