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Māori Protests

This set explores some of the major protests by Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. This includes the events at Takaparawhā (Bastion Point), the 1975 Hīkoi, the Foreshore and Seabed protests and many others over recent years. SCIS no: 1943647

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Photograph of protesters on the Maori Land March, College Hill, Auckland

Photograph of protesters on the Maori Land March, College Hill, Auckland

Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Bastion Point: A desperate struggle and a dream fulfilled | E-Tangata

Bastion Point: A desperate struggle and a dream fulfilled | E-Tangata

Bastion Point, Orakei, Auckland

Bastion Point, Orakei, Auckland

Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Bastion Point protesters at Parliament, Wellington

Bastion Point protesters at Parliament, Wellington

Original Evening Post caption reads: "Waiting patiently to talk with the Minister of Lands (Mr Venn Young) this morning were these four Bastion Point protesters, part of a group of 30 who went to P...

Bastion Point - The Untold Story

Bastion Point - The Untold Story

In 1977 protesters occupied Bastion Point, after the announcement of a housing development on land once belonging to Ngāti Whātua. On 25 May 1978, police and army arrived en masse to remove them. T...

Remembering Bastion Pt: 'Straight out of a Nazi war movie'

Tomorrow marks 40 years since Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei was forcibly evicted from Takaparawhau or Bastion Point in Auckland.

Reclaiming Bastion Point - Roadside Stories

Reclaiming Bastion Point - Roadside Stories

After European settlement of Auckland, the lands of the Ngāti Whātua tribe were gradually whittled away, and the harbourside area of Bastion Point was taken by the Crown for defence purposes. A 197...

1975 Hīkoi (Māori Land March)

1975 Hīkoi (Māori Land March)

On 14 September 1975, Dame Whina Cooper and a group of Māori protesters set off on a long march (hīkoi) to Wellington. This story covers the reasons for the march, the hikoi itself, and what it ach...

"…it won’t be a lonely walk”

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the ‘Not One Acre More’ hīkoi.

Hōne Heke's protest

Hōne Heke's protest

In July 1844 Ngāpuhi chief Hōne Heke organised the felling of the flagpole above Kororāreka.

Te Matakite o Aotearoa - The Māori Land March

This film is a detailed chronicle of a key moment in the Māori renaissance: the 1975 land march led by then 79-year-old Whina Cooper.

Dog tax protest

Dog tax protest

In this cartoon from May 1898 a Māori man lets Premier Richard Seddon know what he thinks about the dog tax. Councils were able to impose a tax on dogs, which was often resented by Māori. In 1898 a...

Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements: Land protests

Historic land protest Māori protest about land dates back to the 19th century. Māori protested against land loss through petitions and occupations and by destroying survey pegs. Pan-tribal movement...

Eva Rickard, Raglan land occupation, 1978

Eva Rickard, Raglan land occupation, 1978

Tainui land rights activist Eva Rickard indicates her ancestral land beside Raglan harbour to Minister of Lands Venn Young. The government had claimed it for a military airfield during the Second W...

Notice on kitchen tent at Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui, New Zealand, during occupation by members of Whanganui iwi - Photograph taken by Anthony Phelps

Notice on kitchen tent at Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui, New Zealand, during occupation by members of Whanganui iwi - Photograph taken by Anthony Phelps

Photograph of notice on kitchen tent at Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui, New Zealand, during occupation by members of Whanganui iwi, taken 11 March 1995 by Dominion staff photographer Anthony Phelps. Fro...

Ripeka Evans and Donna Awatere

Ripeka Evans and Donna Awatere

Donna Awatere (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whakaue, Te Whānau-a-Hinetāpora) and Ripeka Evans (Ngāti Ueoneone, Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Porou) are shown on the cover of the October 1982 issue o...

I Am the River

After the passing of a family member, the Bell family discovered a selection of late 19th century photographs tucked away in a closet. Taken by a man named William Partington, the photos documented...

Mocking the haka: The Haka Party Incident and 'casual' racism in New Zealand

Mocking the haka: The Haka Party Incident and 'casual' racism in New Zealand

An innovative piece of theatre has resurfaced a long forgotten story with a lasting effect on race relations in New Zealand. Simon Day spoke to director Katie Wolfe about The Haka Party Incident. ...

Tino rangatiratanga flag

Tino rangatiratanga flag

On Waitangi Day in 2010, two flags flew from the Auckland Harbour Bridge. On the right is the New Zealand national flag, incorporating the Union Jack of Great Britain. On the left is the tino ranga...

'Not one acre more'

'Not one acre more'

Māori Land March 40th anniversary display at Shirley Library. File Reference: DSC05153 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

Foreshore and seabed protest, 2004

Foreshore and seabed protest, 2004

In 2004 issues of kāwanatanga dominated New Zealand's political discourse. The Labour-led government passed legislation declaring that the country's foreshore and seabed were Crown-owned. Many, esp...

Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations: Protest organisations

Activist groups Māori commentators often say that nothing has been achieved without protest and action. Progress towards tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) has been based on this belief. Many...

Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On

Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On

Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) in the early 1970s. "Those years helped shape the rest of my life," says Paratene in this 201...

Operation 8

On October 15 2007, citing evidence of guerilla camps involving firearms training, police raided 60 houses across Aotearoa, many of them in Ruatoki, near Whakatāne. In production for almost as many...

Protests want stop to Maori land law review

Protests want stop to Maori land law review

Protesters hope a demonstration in the home town of the Maori Development Minister will send him a clear message to look again at plans to change Maori land laws.

Kaitangata Twitch - First Episode

Kaitangata Twitch - First Episode

This multi award-winning series follows 12-year-old Meredith, who sees eerie visions as a Governors Bay island is drilled for mining. The Māori Television series was adapted from a Margaret Mahy no...

The Price of Peace

The Price of Peace

Journalist Kim Webby's The Price of Peace follows Tūhoe activist Tame Iti, whose family Webby has known for more than 20 years. As this opening excerpt shows, Iti was one of four people to go on tr...

Mass march from Turangawaewae to Waahi, 15 kilometres

Mass march from Turangawaewae to Waahi, 15 kilometres

black and white photograph 280 x 405 mm - Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1986

NATIVES IN PROTEST. PETITION TO THE KING. (Otago Witness, 25 March 1908)

Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism: Organising against racism, 1970s to early 21st century

New anti-racist groups In the early 1970s new anti-racism organisations were formed to address the consequences of colonisation. Ngā Tamatoa, made up of young Māori, campaigned on issues such as th...

Maori movement to protest Australian laws

A Maori rights movement based in Australia will be holding peaceful rallies in five major cities to raise awareness of what they describe as unjust laws which discriminate against New Zealanders.

Photographs taken at a 2011 foreshore and seabed protest in Wellington

Photographs taken at a 2011 foreshore and seabed protest in Wellington

Photographs of the protest in Wellington against Foreshore and Seabed legislation, 22 March 2011, taken by Dylan Owen. Includes views of groups of people with banners and flags taken in Lambton Qua...

Foreshore and seabed protest, 2011

Foreshore and seabed protest, 2011

A host of tino rangatiratanga flags, symbolising Māori self-determination, fly above this hīkoi (march) along Auckland's Queen Street in March 2011. The Foreshore and Seabed Act passed in 2004 was ...

Maori Protest Against the Liquor Traffic. (Star, 15 April 1884)

THE AMERICAN FLEET. (Evening Post, 29 July 1908)

'No Maoris - No Tour' poster, 1959

'No Maoris - No Tour' poster, 1959

The Citizens' All Black Tour Association, of which Ngāi Tahu leader Frank Winter was a prominent member, campaigned to stop the selection of a racially based All Black touring team with the slogan,...

Freedom to Sing

Freedom to Sing

In April 2011, singer Tiki Taane was handcuffed, arrested and spent a night in the cells after performing a number by American rappers NWA as police visited his performance at Tauranga’s Illuminati...

Children of the revolution

Children of the revolution

This documentary explores the 1970s/80s protest movement through six key activists and their children.

Ngā haki – Māori and flags: Flags and protest

Protest movements and flags From the 1970s protest movements began displaying flags as symbols of protest. This was particularly significant at Waitangi Day protests. Some of the flags that were us...

Protest signs, Ihumatao Quarry Road, Māngere, 2017

Protest signs, Ihumatao Quarry Road, Māngere, 2017

Protest signs and flags on Ihumatao Quarry Road

'The Rise of the Morning Star' artistic intervention on Queen Street

'The Rise of the Morning Star' artistic intervention on Queen Street

This photograph documents an artistic intervention by collective Oceania Interrupted in Auckland against the long-term brutal occupation of West Papua by Indonesia (since 1962) and the New Zealand ...

Hikoi returning from Waitangi

Ans Westra’s photograph highlights how the Treaty of Waitangi was the focal point for Māori protests.

Matene Waetford on inequality

Matene Waetford protests on the treatment of Māori after the war.

Development near sacred Māori site

Fletcher Building goes ahead with plans to build houses on land considered wahi tapu by local hapū and iwi.

Online game removed after protests

A Māori-themed online gambling game withdrawn by Czech creators after protests that it breached Māori intellectual property.

Matiaha Tiramorehu

Biography of Māori leader, farmer, protester and orator.

Protests over Hauraki treaty settlement signing

Protests and tears as iwi clash at the signing of the Hauraki treaty settlement.

The Kaituna Claim

Ngati Pikiao protests the building of a pipeline on medical, social, cultural, and spiritual grounds.

Political and personal album of Ria Hall

The political and personal overtones of singer Ria Hall in her debut album Rules of Engagement.

My old man's an All Black

Gerry Merito’s protest song against the decision to send an all-white team to South Africa in 1960.

The fight for power

Ngāti Awa protests the application of Trust Power to change the way they operate the Matahina Dam.

Haka for Standing Rock

Support from Māori for the First Nations people at Standing Rock, North Dakota, USA.

Remembering the 1981 Springboks Tour and protest

Many Māori remember when the Springboks toured NZ in 1981.

Destiny Church members protest

Hundreds of Destiny Church members march in protest at 2019 Waitangi.

Protests give Māori greater power

Nobody should be told to stop protesting – it was the cornerstone of society.

Speech by Archbishop Rev. Whakahuihui Vercoe

Archbishop Rev. Whakahuihui Vercoe speaks his mind in the presence of the Queen as protesters chant on.

School students perform protest haka at Parliament

Rousing haka performed outside Parliament in an effort to save Turakina Māori Girls' College.

Treaty protest posters: ‘The treaty is a fraud’

Treaty protest posters: ‘The treaty is a fraud’

This poster from the late 1970s expresses the frustration and impatience of the Māori land-rights movement in that period. The Waitangi Tribunal had been formed in 1975 to investigate Māori claims ...

A poem based on the 1995 Whanganui iwi occupied Pākaitore/Moutoa Gardens by Airini Beautrais.

Protest waiata and protest haka

Compositions against oppressive legislation, injustice and in loss of land from Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.

Repudiation movement

Repudiation movement

The repudiation movement was based in Hawke's Bay and was headed by Henare Matua. The movement had its own Māori-language newspaper. Its philosophy was based around repudiating unfair leases and pu...

Māori All Black protest

Māori protest at All Black decision.

Collecting the Standing Rock protest and why it’s important

A number of Māori have travelled to North Dakota to visit the Standing Rock protest site.

Māori passive protest against conscription

A significant sector of the Māori community did not support the First World War.

The evolution of contemporary Maori protest

Historically, the intensity and momentum of Maori political activism have never been consistent.

Treaty and Protest

John Miller’s important protest photographs.

Oceania Interrupted protest for West Papua

Oceania interrupted protest for West Papua

West Papua, formerly a Dutch colony has been under the control of Indonesia since the early 1960s. Ever since then, West Papuans have been fighting for independence from the Indonesian regime. Paci...

'Tonight - Tame Iti in "The Tempest".' 'Protests over bail conditions'. 19 June, 2008

'Tonight - Tame Iti in "The Tempest".

Tame Iti is a well-known Tūhoe Māori activist who was part of many protests movements against the Crown. In 2007 he was arrested during the 2007 Urewera raids on charges of terrorism in New Zealand...

ANTI-LIQUOR PROTESTS (Mataura Ensign 21-7-1908)

Anti-liquor protests

Māori called liquor ‘waipiro’ meaning ‘foul water’. Initially, very few Māori consumed alcohol when it was first introduced by the Europeans. However, alcohol soon became an issue in Māori communit...

Maori land protesters at their camp in Parliament grounds, Wellington

Māori land protesters in Parliament grounds

It was a mixture of historical and contemporary land issues that moved Whina Cooper to head the famous Hīkoi or Land March of 1975. Consisting of various iwi and Māori protest groups the hikoi bega...

Maori rights campaigner Eva Rickard dancing at Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui

Eva Rickard dancing at Moutoa Gardens

Eva Rickard was a well-known Māori rights and environmental campaigner. She was famous for leading the Raglan golf course protest. In this 1995 photograph, Eva dances at the Moutoa Gardens protest...

Participants in Foreshore and Seabed Hikoi, Parliament grounds, Wellington

Participants in the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Hikoi

In New Zealand, ‘seabed’ refers to the land under water and ‘foreshore’ is the land that gets covered by the tide. Traditionally Māori used this area for recreation, fishing, collecting seaweed, ba...

Meanwhile - on a Bay of Plenty beach.... No offshore drilling. Kai moana NOT oil! No drill no spill! 28 June 2010

No offshore drilling. Kai moana NOT oil! No drill no spill!

Māori have always had a close relationship with te moana (the sea). Here they protest the news that Minister Gerry Brownlee has awarded New Zealand's first petroleum exploration permit over the Rau...

Photographer John Miller, an activist’s lens

Miller is perhaps te ao Māori’s finest protest photographer.

Our trail of tears: the story of Ihumātao

The protest at Ihumātao has deep roots in the legacy of colonialism and land confiscation.

No Maoris No Tour

No Maoris No Tour

Small pamphlet of "an account of the history and progress of the protest movement in New Zealand against the exclusion of Maori players form the 1960 New Zealand rugby team to tour South Africa.".

EDITORIAL No Maoris No Tour - (Te Ao Hou - No. 54 March 1966)

EDITORIAL No Maoris No Tour - (Te Ao Hou - No. 54 March 1966)

This article was written prior to the meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union held on February 25 at which councillors were to decide upon a reply to the South African invitation to send an...

Restoring Rua Kēnana's legacy

Rua Kēnana was one of the most enigmatic Māori leaders of the 20th century, building a thriving community in the remote hills of Te Urewera.

Hirini Melbourne — Music and Protest

Dr Hirini Melbourne and his waiata are potent vehicles for many of the ideas and ideals he was passionate about.

A biography of the Māori protester Eva Rickard.

Protest at Mimiwhangata Lodge

Māori protestors took over the Mimiwhangata Lodge to pressure the Department of Conservation to return land they claim is theirs.

Statue of James Cook to be removed in Gisborne

Local iwi welcome the removal of a statue of Captain James Cook from Gisborne's Tītīrangi Hill.

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