Indigenous Self-Determination: A Case Study Analysis of Indigenising Self-Determination for Tapuika in Aotearoa
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This study investigates the views, values and aspirations of Tapuika iwi (tribe) as a case study to understand if self-determination is compatible with the Māori worldview and how it may be indigenised for Tapuika. Fusing Kaupapa Māori (Māori approach) with Western social science methodologies, this paper indigenises the collective right to Indigenous self-determination with Māori values and investigates its cultural, political and economic forms based on the views and aspirations of Tapuika participants. The study finds that the Indigenous right to self-determination is compatible with rangatiratanga (Māori self-determination) and tino rangatiratanga (Māori sovereignty) but this requires decolonisation so that shared sovereignty is balanced with the State. Indigenous self-determination and rangatiratanga are both vital for Tapuika but institutionalised racism within the treatment of Indigenous peoples in international and domestic law and the barriers posed by the mono-legalistic hierarchy of rights are significant issues that call for political and sociocultural change. The paper concludes that constitutional transformation and rectification of injustices within the mono-legalistic hierarchy of rights are necessary for Tapuika to fully and effectively enjoy Indigenous self-determination and rangatiratanga.
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