“In the context of the Treaty, the antithesis to bicultural is not multicultural but monocultural. Biculturalism cannot be used to deny our multicultural reality or diminish our clear duty to all people. But nor can multiculturalism be used to deny Māori their status as a constitutional entity in this country. Less prosaically, and applying this to libraries, where else but in Aotearoa can we expect libraries to maintain and provide for the record of the Māori people?”

Judge Eddie Durie, 1994

Chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal

(p.7) Szekely, C. (1999). Issues and initiatives in indigenous librarianship: Some international perspectives. Auckland, NZ: Te Rōpū Whakahau.