Margaret Mutu: Difference between revisions

Mutu was born in Auckland.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=1986-01-01|title=Mutu, Margaret, active 1986-2000s|url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22527291|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-20|website=National Library of New Zealand|language=en-NZ}}</ref> Her mother Penelope Brough-Robertson was [[Pākehā]] of Scottish descent and was a nurse at National Women's Hospital.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Husband|first=Dale|last2=|first2=|last3=|first3=|date=2015-12-12|title=Margaret Mutu: They told me I’dI'd know how to beat these Pākehā|url=https://e-tangata.co.nz/korero/margaret-mutu-they-told-me-id-know-how-to-beat-these-pakeha/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-20|website=E-Tangata|language=en-NZ}}</ref> Her father Tame / Tom Mutu was brought up in the Northern Wairoa outside of [[Dargaville]] and was Māori affiliating with Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Whātua, all iwi from the [[Northland Region]] of New Zealand.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> The schools she attended whilst growing up in [[Mount Roskill]], Auckland were Waikowhai Primary School and Mt Roskill Intermediate. After her father died Mutu went to schooling in New Plymouth, at [[New Plymouth Girls' High School|New Plymouth Girls’ High]] boarding at the Rangiātea Methodist Māori Girls hostel.<ref name=":2" />

Mutu holds a number of chairperson roles including of the Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu (the council of representatives, or parliament, of the Ngāti Kahu iwi or nation),<ref name="iwi" /> Ngāti Kahu's head claimant and chief negotiator for treaty claims settlements, and spokesperson to the media, a member of National Iwi Chairs' Forum (representing Ngāti Kahu).<ref>{{cite web | title=Home - Sharing the vision of Kotahitanga | website=Iwi Chairs Forum - Sharing the vision of Kotahitanga | url=https://iwichairs.maori.nz/ | access-date=2021-03-25}}</ref> She is chairperson of [[Matike Mai Aotearoa]]: The Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation, convened by [[Moana Jackson]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Constitutional Working Group - Sharing the vision of Kotahitanga | website=Iwi Chairs Forum - Sharing the vision of Kotahitanga | date=2021-03-12 | url=https://iwichairs.maori.nz/our-kaupapa/constitutional-working-group/ | access-date=2021-03-25}}</ref> and chairperson of the Aotearoa Independent Monitoring Mechanism which monitors New Zealand's compliance with the [[Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples|United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.converge.org.nz/ |title=Archived copyConverge |access-date=11 June 2019 |archive-date=14 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614111141/http://www.converge.org.nz/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She has been the chairperson of Karikari [[marae]] and Kapehu marae (in the [[Wairoa River (Northland)|Northern Wairoa]]).<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Chairperson|url=http://www.ngatikahu.iwi.nz/node/47|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223025837/https://www.ngatikahu.iwi.nz/node/47|archive-date=2021-09-20|access-date=2021-09-20|website=Ngāti Kahu}}</ref>