More than 100 years ago, a Māori woman packed up her life as a tour guide and entertainer in New Zealand and set off for England, where she would soon make history by enrolling at Oxford university.
In a tragic turn, Mākereti Papakura – believed to be the first woman from an Indigenous community to study at the university – died just weeks before completing her thesis, and in the decades since, her family has fought to have her degree recognised.
I’m wholly certain that women from Midlands England studied at Oxford before this lady. You know, indigenes as far as Oxford is concerned?
Anyway, on to the more important questions. What is that special little trick that moves one from indigene to Indigenous?
I know that there was an Indian lady in the 1890s at Oxford. Studied law, I think.
Does anyone still have her thesis ? Can it still be marked ?
I wonder how many white English men were awarded posthumous degrees from Oxford without completing a thesis?
White people are never indigenous, never mind Indigenous.
Clearly none of the writers of this article graduated in English
“women from Midlands England”
If it’s indigenous you want it’s the Welsh you’d have to cite. Not a bunch of Krauts.
An indigene is an indigenous person. indigene is the noun, indigenous is the adjective.
True, but Tim’s point is where does the capital I come from ?
Bit like Black.
The question that comes to my mind is: have other students who have died before completing their thesis been awarded a degree or are they asking for special treatment?
They’re asking for special treatment because they is black. And wimmin. Of course they are.
They have been brainwashed to think ‘first’ is more important than ‘best’.
Would death be encompassed by the reasons for awarding an aegrotat degree?
It did in a case where I was Chairman of the Exam Board. Staff who were graduates of Russell Group Unis were on the whole against. I pointed out that not only was the person in question the top student in her class, but even on the basis of the assessments she had completed she would have graduated with good Hons. After several hours of discussion, I called them a bunch of miserable cvnts, pointed out that she wouldn’t disgrace us in a job she might have got, and took Chairman’s Action.
Usually, students weren’t the victims of injustices. I am trying to remember cases from my long career – perhaps 2 or 3, and even they weren’t obvious until in retrospect, and weren’t very serious on a possible scale.
“What is that special little trick that moves one from indigene to Indigenous?”
Apparently in the US, it’s if you trace back your ancestry to ancestors that were on a particular piece of paper written down in a certain year.
It’s somewhat ironic in a country so apparently set on not having any lords.
Maori? How many people did she eat?
“Fuck off, I’m full.”
More to the point, is it not the case that the immigrant Māori wiped out the indigenous Moriori…?
So she’s not even an indigenous New Zealander…
That’s getting a little garbled I fear. The Moriori were an offshoot of Maori – a tribe, a subunit – who went off to the Chatham Islands. Where, centuries later, they were found, fought and eaten. They were not the original inhabitants of NZ, no.
There were zero humans on NZ until ~1200AD – plenty of Moa though, until the Māori arrived. It’s intriguing to think that if a traveller from the court of Edward I could have reached NZ, he’d have found Moas. And Haast’s Eagles.
So…… Normans migrated from England to Ireland, then later more Normans migrated to Ireland et the earlier ones.