July has been a busy month for our NPM secretariat with calls for proposals out for our New Horizons summer internships and Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation grants, as well as the opening of submissions for our Indigenous Climate Change Research Summit. We are excited about the widespread interest shown in the opportunities on offer and look forward to announcing the outcomes in coming months.
This month we also begin a regular e-pānui feature on Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, with the aim of introducing readers to some of the incredible taonga that are being cared for at the museum and the opportunities to connect with iwi, hapū and Māori communities. We hope that sharing these stories might also spark future research and collaboration.
Finally, we note that 9 August is International Day Of The World’s Indigenous Peoples, marking the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in 1982.