Notes from Down Under

Iwi Tribes

Notes on Imperialism

The New Language of Imperialism

• Post colonialism
• Globalization
• Progress
• Modernism
• Decolonization
• Fragmentation
• Recentring

Twelve Ways to be Researched (Colonized

• Having your genealogy and identity (Cell-lines) stolen, patented, copied
• Having the umbilical cord blood of aborted babies farmed
• Having your cultural institutions and their rituals patented either by a non-indigenous person or by another indigenous individual

Twelve Ways to be Researched (Colonized)

• Scientific and political reconstruction of a previously extinct indigenous people
• Dying and then coming back to life as a flock of sheep or variety of tomatoes
• Commodifying indigenous spirituality

Twelve Ways to be Researched (Colonized)

• Creating virtual culture as authentic culture
• Feeding consumption, tuberculosis of the marketplace
• Creating sovereign reservations for the elite

Twelve Ways to be Researched (Colonized)

• Denial of global citizenship
• Exercising terror in the twenty-first century
• Let them eat cake

The Next Decades

Setting a New Agenda

• The Social Movement of Indigenous People
• International Mobilization
• An Agenda for Indigenous Research
• Ethical Research Protocols

Ethical Research Protocols

• Aroha ki te tangata (a respect for people).
• Kanohi kitea (the seen face, that is present yourself to people face to face).
• Titiro, whakarongo...korero (look, listen, speak).
• Manaski ki te tangata (share and host people, be generous).
• Kia tupato (be cautious).
• Kaua e takahia te mana ote tangata (do not trample over the mana of people).
• kia mahaki (don't flaunt your knowledge).

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