2023 Fellow

Linda Te Aho (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Ngāti Mahuta).

Linda is an associate professor at Te Piringa Faculty of Law where she teaches and researches in the areas of Tikanga, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, and Māori Land Law.

As the Judith Binney Fellow she receives an $80,000 grant to assist completion of ‘Kotahi te iwi, e rua ngaa marae–A history of Ngaati Koroki Kahukura,’ exploring issues relating to iwi and hapū identity in the Waikato, and analysing the impact of Treaty settlement processes on smaller claimant groups.

Book Publication

Trust Supports New Publication

The Judith Binney Trust is pleased to have supported the publication of 'Te Motunui Epa', by Rachel Buchanan. 

Rachel was awarded a 2020 Judith Binney Writing Award and used the grant to support her research and writing about five interconnected carved panels, Te Motunui Epa, their journey across the world and how they changed practices, understanding and international law on the protection and repatriation of stolen cultural treasures.

Published by BWB in November the book has already attracted a lot of media attention.

Other Judith Binney Trust News

Re-opening of Matangireia

A dawn service at Parliament in October marked the re-opening of Matangireia, the former Māori Affairs Committee Room following extensive renovation. 

To celebrate the room's centenary a book, researched and written by Ellen Andersen was presented to iwi and whānau who attended. Ellen used a 2020 Judith Binney Trust Writing Award to support her publication about the restoration project.

Ellen, who is now Director Kaiwhakahaere Tautiaki Taonga and Kaupapa Māori at Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga describes the significance of the room here.

Referring to the JBT Writing Award she says it provided 'the opportunity to understand the history of the room (and) made for much better conservation outcomes.'

She adds: 'The other valuable outcome was the work I did with the descendants of the artists whose biographies appear in the book. Their stories are rich and impressive, and have never been published before, and whānau found it really special to have someone dedicated to digging in the archives for them, finding other records to sit alongside their own whānau kōrero.' 

The co-administrator of the Judith Binney Trust, John Barr, represented the Judith Binney trustees at the dawn service.