Dr Dione Payne
B.A. (Auckland), M.A. (Auckland), PhD (Victoria)
Dione Payne is the Director for Māori and Pasifika Development at Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki (Lincoln University) in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Dione advocates for Māori land development and productivity by customary owners, utilising customary ethics and principles. Those ethics and principles consider European ideas of productivity with a key focus on tikanga Māori approaches to utilisation, retention and perpetuation of customary knowledge, including mahinga kai (customary food gathering and harvesting). Dione lives in Koukourarata, a customary Māori papakainga (homeland) with her husband’s people. Dione continues to maintain her own whānau (family) links to her own papakainga in Aotearoa New Zealand’s North Island, Te Ika a Māui. Dione is a mokopuna (descendant) of many hapū and iwi including: Ngāti Hine ki Waikato, Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi, Te Uri o Hau, Ngāti Whātua, Ngā Puhi, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Toa, Tūhourangi, and Ngāti Rangitihi. Research and Rangahau interests. Poutu, Dion (1999) Development values in Lake Ōmāpere A thesis submitted to the University of Auckland in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. Payne, Dione (2011) ‘National interest alienations in Waikato’, Seminar, Victoria University, Wellington, December 2011. Payne, Dione (2012) ‘Pokaewhenua’, Pacific History Association Conference, Wellington, 6-8 December. Payne, Dione (2014) ‘Okarea ki Pōkaewhenua’ A hui of Ngāti Hine convened to hear the research outcomes of Parish of Whangamarino Lot 512. Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Hamilton and Auckland, July 2014. Payne, Dione (2014) ‘100 year whānau plans’ World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education, O’ahu, Hawai’i, 19-24 May 2014 Payne, Dione (2014) Mai Rangiriri ki Pōkaewhenua: The Confiscation of Pōkaewhenua in the National Interest – 1961- 1969. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy accessible at http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/handle/10063/3463 Payne, Dione (2017) Enduring confiscation of native lands in the new millenium. World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education, Toronto, Canada, 24-28 July 2014. In 2019, Dione will be attending the He Au Honua conference in Maui, Hawaii to present two key areas of her research. |