Bastion Point
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On 5 January 1977 Takaparawhā (Bastion Point reserve) was occupied by Ngāti Whātua protesters. Led by Joe Hawke, this group maintained that the land had been wrongly taken from them and the Crown's plan for housing development was illegal. Protestors were evicted by police after 506 days.
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Police cordon, Bastion Point
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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[Bastion Point]
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
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[Bastion Point]
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
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[Ngati Whatua occupation of Bastion Point, Auckland, during land protest]
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
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[Bastion Point]
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
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[Ngati Whatua occupation of Bastion Point, Auckland, during land protest]
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
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[Bastion Point]
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
Bastion Point, Auckland
Alexander Turnbull Library
Kites over Bastion Point
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Bastion Point, Auckland
Alexander Turnbull Library
Bastion Point, Orakei, Auckland
Alexander Turnbull Library
Bastion Point protest, 1978
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Bastion Point protesters at Parliament, Wellington
Alexander Turnbull Library
Bastion Point, Hikoi ki Waitangi
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Looking west towards Bastion Point...1931
Auckland Libraries
Maori Land Occupation, Bastion Point.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Bastion Point protester Eruera Nia, Wellington
Alexander Turnbull Library
Savage Memorial, Bastion Point, Waitemata Harbour, Rangitoto
Auckland Libraries
Land of a Thousand Lovers
NZ On Screen
Photographer unknown :[Orakei Marae, Bastion Point, Auckland, ca 1890]
Alexander Turnbull Library
History of the ancestors of Ngati Whatua
Auckland Libraries
Reclaiming Bastion Point - Roadside Stories
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Television film of Bastion Point eviction
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Bastion Point protest
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Bastion Point - The Untold Story
NZ On Screen
Bastion Point
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
30 Year Anniversary of Bastion Point
Radio New Zealand
Joe Hawke
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
21st anniversary marked of return of Bastion Point
Radio New Zealand
Ngāti Whātua: Origins
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Ngāti Whātua: Facts and figures
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Te Hara (of the Ngati Whatua, Orakei)
The University of Auckland Library
Ngati Whatua group at Kaipara
Alexander Turnbull Library
Settlement at Ōrākei, 1907
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage