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When Te Ahiwaru-Ngāti Māhuta made their stand behind flimsy palisades of pallets and nylon at Ihumātao few predicted they would win against conglomerate Fletcher Building. Despite ridicule by Fletchers, right-wing commentators and journalists, MPs from Act, National, New Zealand First and occasionally from their relations in Te Kawerau ā Maki, their five-year showdown took a major forward when the Labour government signed an agreement with the Kīngitanga and Fletcher Building.
Led by a new generation of young Māori leaders with wāhine Pania Newton and Qiane Matata-Sipu at the fore, Te Ahiwaru won because they stood in the spirit of 160 years of ancestors subjugated but never broken. Sustained by elders and whānau from Makaurau Marae, super-confident millennial-GenZ peers unimpressed w
Dr Rawiri Taonui | Ihumātao Understanding the Agreement 28 Dec 2020 22:51 PM
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When Te Ahiwaru-Ngāti Māhuta made their stand behind flimsy palisades of pallets and nylon at Ihumātao few predicted they would win against conglomerate Fletcher Building. Despite ridicule by Fletchers, right-wing commentators and journalists, MPs from Act, National, New Zealand First and occasionally from their relations in Te Kawerau ā Maki, their five-year showdown took a major forward when the Labour government signed an agreement with the Kīngitanga and Fletcher Building.
Led by a new generation of young Māori leaders with wāhine Pania Newton and Qiane Matata-Sipu at the fore, Te Ahiwaru won because they stood in the spirit of 160 years of ancestors subjugated but never broken. Sustained by elders and whānau from Makaurau Marae, super-confident millennial-GenZ peers unimpressed w
Dr Rawiri Taonui | Ihumātao Understanding the Agreement 28 Dec 2020 22:51 PM
Author: Dr Rawiri Taonui
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Dr Rawiri Taonui | Ihumātao Understanding the Agreement
When Te Ahiwaru-Ngāti Māhuta made their stand behind flimsy palisades of pallets and nylon at Ihumātao few predicted they would win against conglomerate Fletcher Building. Despite ridicule by Fletchers, right-wing commentators and journalists, MPs from Act, National, New Zealand First and occasionally from their relations in Te Kawerau ā Maki, their five-year showdown took a major forward when the Labour government signed an agreement with the Kīngitanga and Fletcher Building.
Led by a new generation of young Māori leaders with wāhine Pania Newton and Qiane Matata-Sipu at the fore, Te Ahiwaru won because they stood in the spirit of 160 years of ancestors subjugated but never broken. Sustained by elders and whānau from Makaurau Marae, super-confident millennial-GenZ peers unimpressed w
Editorial: Grievances can be appeased at Ihumātao
19 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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The Māori words for self-determination are spelt out at Ihumātao. Photo / Sylvie Whinray, File
NZ Herald
EDITORIAL
There are several reasons why Ihumātao is important - many of them embedded in the past but resounding still today. Early ancestors connected to the land include Mataaho, after who Ihumātao, or Te Ihu o Mataaho (the nose of Mataaho) is named, according to an account by Auckland War Memorial Museum history curator Lucy Mackintosh.
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Archaeologists have also confirmed Māori were present on the Māngere-Puhinui coastline by around 1450 and were gardening on the lava fields at Ihumātao by the end of the 1500s.