{"id":74565,"date":"2025-10-02T08:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/02\/makereti-papakura-100-years-oxford-university-first-female-indigenous-scholar-honoured"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:59:53","slug":"nearly-100-years-after-her-death-oxfords-first-female-indigenous-scholar-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74565","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford\u2019s first female Indigenous scholar honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101kereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by M\u0101ori today<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 years ago, a M\u0101ori 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.<\/p>\n<p>In a tragic turn, M\u0101kereti Papakura \u2013 believed to be the first woman from an Indigenous community to study at the university \u2013 died just weeks before completing her thesis, and in the decades since, her family has fought to have her degree recognised.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/02\/makereti-papakura-100-years-oxford-university-first-female-indigenous-scholar-honoured\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101kereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by M\u0101ori todayMore than 100 years ago, a M\u0101ori woman packed up her life as a tour guide and entertaine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,1144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-university-of-oxford"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74566,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74565\/revisions\/74566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}