July 06, 2021
Colonial attacks under lens of Fulbright scholars
Two Māori scholars are hearing for the United States with Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga graduate awards.
Jenni Tupu is working towards a PhD from the University of Otago on indigenous identity development of Māori who underwent closed adoptions, where they were and raised without connection to whakapapa.
The award will allow her to pursue further research at Amara, a non-profit child welfare organisation in Seattle which has developed and Adoption Files Initiative to ensure adoptees receive information previously denied to them by former laws and social work practices.
She will also study and work at the National Native American Boarding School Coalition in Minneapolis, whose mission is to address the ongoing trauma caused by the Indian Boarding School policy in effect from 1860 to the early 1970s.
Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman is headed for the history department at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he intends to compare Indigenous experiences of settler colonialism in Aotearoa and the United States, building on his doctoral research which examined Indigenous sovereignty and settler state violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Applications for the Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Graduate awards are open now. The closing date is August 1. For more details, please visit https://www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzgraduate/fulbright-npmgraduate/
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