Māori protest changemakers

PROTEST CHANGEMAKERS

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 activist, non-kin groups emerged, including Ngā Tamatoa, the Māori Graduates Association and the Māori Organisation on Human Rights. Ngā Tamatoa, together with Te Reo Māori Society, the Wellington Māori Language Commission and others, fought using sit-ins, parliamentary petitions and claims to the Waitangi Tribunal for Māori language teaching in schools and Māori language broadcasting.

Groups protested at Waitangi that the Treaty of Waitangi was a ‘fraud’ because successive governments had allowed historic grievances about breaches of the treaty to remain unaddressed.

Source: Ngā rōpū - Māori organisations - Protest organisations, Te Ara — the Encyclopedia of New Zealand

MERI TE TAI MANGAKĀHIA (NGĀTI TE REINGA, NGĀTI MANAWA, TE KAITUTAE)

HANA TE HEMARA (TE ĀTI AWA, NGĀTI RAUKAWA) 

TE KIRIHAEHAE TE PUEA HĒRANGI (WAIKATO TAINUI)

TUAIWA EVA RICKARD (NGĀTI KOATA, NGĀTI TOA, TAINUI)  

DAME WHINA COOPER (TE RARAWA)

NGAHUIA TE AWEKOTUKU (TE ARAWA, TŪHOE)

TITEWHAI HARAWIRA (NGĀPUHI, NGĀTI WAI) 

NGA TAMATOA 

SYD JACKSON (NGĀTI KAHUNGUNU, NGĀTI POROU)

RAWIRI PARATENE (NGĀPUHI)

HONE HARAWIRA (NGĀPUHI, NGĀTI WAI, TE AUPŌURI, NGĀTI WHĀTUA) 

TAME ITI (NGĀTI WAIRERE, NGĀTI HAUĀ, TE ARAWA)   

KEN MAIR (NGĀTI TŪPOHO) 

PANIA NEWTON (NGĀPUHI, WAIKATO, NGĀTI MAHUTA, NGĀTI MANIAPOTO)   

This story was curated and compiled by Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa | National Library of New Zealand, Services to Schools staff, November 2020.