“Archbishop Don Tamihere has been awarded the Loyola Marymount University’s “Presidential Citation” to acknowledge his leadership of an educational partnership established during the 1990s with US Professor Daniel Smith-Christopher, which has seen more than 250 students come to Aotearoa to study theology through a Māori worldview.
“The relationship between Tairāwhiti and Prof Smith-Christopher began when he was at St John’s College in Auckland as a Visiting Professor of Old Testament.
“A lifelong advocate of indigenous rights, Prof Smith-Christopher recalled feeling welcomed unconditionally by tikanga Maori, especially by Canon Dr Hone Kaa, who insisted he meet an outstanding young biblical scholar, Don Tamihere…”