Author Talk: Roimata Smail
Understanding Te Tiriti : A Handbook of Basic Facts about Te Tiriti of Waitangi

Join us for an insightful afternoon with Roimata Smail, author of Understanding Te Tiriti. In this engaging talk, Roimata will explore the meaning and significance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, offering clear explanations and thoughtful perspectives to support deeper understanding.

Roimata Smail (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, Ngāti Kotimana, Ngāti Ingarangi) has worked for two decades as a human rights and public law barrister specialising in discrimination against Māori. She has represented iwi, hapū, whānau, urban Māori organisations and Māori owned and governed health and social service providers in the Courts and Waitangi Tribunal. She has also advised on settlement negotiations with the Crown involving the return of ancestral land and acting in litigation and negotiations with the Crown under the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 and the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011. Roimata is also a Treaty educator who has developed experiential workshops on Te Tiriti and the Wai Ako educational website for schools. In 2024 she published a best selling book "Understanding Te Tiriti: A Handbook of Basic Facts about Te Tiriti o Waitangi", an easy to read and accessible text that will act as an introduction for those wanting to learn more about our founding document or a refresh for those wanting a pithy reference guide to keep close to hand.​

Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the day, thanks to Page & Blackmore.

No bookings required.

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