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.