Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith CNZM (née Mead)[1] is a professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.[2][3][4] The daughter of Hirini Moko Mead,[5] she affiliates to the Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou iwi.[6]

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.[7][8][9]

In the 2013 New Year Honours, Smith was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori and education.[10]

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