Abstract
This paper discusses how outsiders (tauiwi) can or cannot conduct research on Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, from the kaupapa Māori point of view. Kaupapa Māori based research has been attracting attention, examined and constructed as decolonising methodologies since the 1980s and is the research by Māori, for Māori and with Māori. This paper introduced how past cultural anthropological works were colonialistic and what research based on kaupapa Māori looks like. This paper then discussed outsiders, including the author, who are researching Māori need to be a “good person” in Māori contexts and based on at least the culturally appropriate research proposed by Smith [1992].
