This 4 day conference brought together scholars from a range of disciplinary fields and nations to develop discipline-based responses to the real-world struggles of Māori and indigenous peoples.
The Mātauranga Taketake: Traditional Knowledge Conference was convened in June 2006 to address issues, practices, models and perspectives for protecting, sustaining and nurturing traditional systems of knowledge. The Conference invited participants to consider the following questions:
Universities can be a difficult location for Indigenous researchers who face a system that honours print more than oral traditions and rewards those who play it safe more than those who are honest in speaking the truth to power.
"Seeing Our World In 16:9 Aspect Ratio: An Indigenous Film Journey" by Projessor Charles Menzies, (First Nations, Canada) Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada.