Ranginui Walker

Ranginui Walker
Citizenship	New Zealand
Notable awards	Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement

Ranginui Joseph Isaac Walker, DCNZM (born 1932 of Māori and Lebanese descent) is a Māori academic and writer living in New Zealand. He was educated at St Peter's Maori College, Auckland, Auckland Teachers' Training College and the University of Auckland. Walker is a member of the Whakatōhea tribe of Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty. Walker was a member of Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa. He later went on to become the Professor and Head of Māori Studies at the University of Auckland. In 2003 Walker became a member of the Waitangi Tribunal.

Awards and honours

In 2009 he received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement

Books

He has published a number of books including:

• Perceptions and Attitudes of the New Generation of Maoris to Pakeha Domination (1981)
• History of Maori Activism (1983)
• The Treaty of Waitangi (1983)
• The Political Development of the Maori People in New Zealand (1984)
• The Meaning of Biculturalism (1986)
• Nga Mamae o te Iwi Maori: Te Ripoata o te Hui i Turangawaewae (1987)
• Nga Tau Tohetohe The Years of Anger (1987)
• Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou / Struggle Without End (1990)
• Liberating Maori from Educational Subjection (1991)
• Nga Pepa a Ranginui The Walker Papers (1997)
• He Tipua The Life and Times of Sir Apirana Ngata (2001)

Sources

• Margie Thomson, "Bridging the Gap", Dominion Post, 9 May 2009, "Your Weekend", p. 10.
• Paul Spoonley, Mata Toa: The Life and Times of Ranginui Walker, Penguin, Auckland 2009.