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Linda Tuhiwai Smith is an internationally recognized scholar who has significantly influenced the field of ²ÑÄå´Ç°ù¾± education and health for decades. Her groundbreaking book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1998) remains a seminal work that serves as a foundational resource for critiques of the existing relationship between dominant institutional research protocols and Indigenous knowledge systems. Known as the Mother of Indigenous Studies, she co-developed the first undergraduate and graduate courses on ²ÑÄå´Ç°ù¾± education and Indigenous education to be taught at a New Zealand university. Tuhiwai Smith has held several positions, including the founding Co-Director of the ²ÑÄå´Ç°ù¾± Centre of Research Excellence, the Pro-Vice Chancellor ²ÑÄå´Ç°ù¾±i, and Dean of the School of ²ÑÄå´Ç°ù¾± and Pacific Development at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. She is currently Professor of ²ÑÄå´Ç°ù¾± and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato. In 2013 she was honored as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services in education and to ²ÑÄå´Ç°ù¾± people. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2016. In 2017 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in Education. She serves or has served such organizations as the Marsden Fund, the Waitangi Tribunal, the ²ÑÄå´Ç°ù¾± Economic Development Board, and the Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand. She is the past president (2009) of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education.