This book, Native Displacement in the Twenty-First Century: Applying Leadership Knowledge is produced of project and exegesis of Master of Applied Indigenous Knowledge. That provided to the author a vehicle to apply and evaluate learning within the context of an applied project connected to indigenous epistemology and an indigenous community. The study sought to as a question; Applying Leadership Knowledge; how can it build on and enhance relationships in South Sudanese and other ethnic communities through encouraging the development of new and effective leadership roles?

This book is a Taonga Tuku Iho (Resource/Product) for the South Sudanese and other ethnic communities and New Zealand society as a whole. It is a contribution to present and future generations. Provides the readers with practical knowledge with a new perspective about forced immigrations to Aotearoa New Zealand. It is using the research findings and author story of forced immigration (family, tribal affiliation, and country historical narratives) that use as a template for other forced migrant background of New Zealand. It serves as a resource and product resulted from conversations with fourteen South Sudanese and a hundred and six ethnic communities' participants.