A protest march on the New Zealand parliament to demand an end to the appropriation of Maori land, held in 1975.
organizers of the Maori Land March collected over 60,000 signatures
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A protest group brought the issue to national attention and debate by organizing a Maori Land March.
The took to the road on the Maori Land March in 1975 to alert Pakeha and the government to the issue.
Let me tell this Government that if it wants demonstrations of a size that make the recent Maori land march doubled, it should start tinkering with water rights in the South Island.
The historic Maori Land March of 1975 reiterated the message of the 1930s.
The Maori land march, and other protests about workers' rights, were in there too.
Together they planned a great Maori Land March from Cape Reinga on the northern tip of the North Island to the Parliament buildings in Wellington.
The novel also engages with Maori land rights issues, focusing in detail upon the 1975 Maori Land March.
Increasing anxieties at the continuing loss of land were given expression in the Maori Land March in 1975.
The 30 images cover protests in New Zealand including apartheid-era Springbok rugby tours, the Vietnam War, the occupation of Bastion Point, nuclear testing in the Pacific, Maori land marches and deep sea oil drilling.
Tribute was paid to Dame Whina Cooper, the leader of the 1975 Maori land march, during debate in Parliament today on four Treaty of Waitangi settlements being passed into law.