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Editorial: Grievances can be appeased at Ihumātao
19 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
3 minutes to read
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.
Ihumātao sacred site bought by New Zealand government for $30m Eleanor Ainge Roy in Queenstown © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Phil Walter/Getty Images
Land claimed by Māori and once slated for large-scale private housing development has been brought by the crown, bringing an end to a decades-long land dispute.
Ihumātao, the sacred site in south Auckland, was seized by the crown in 1863, and sold to the private developer Fletcher Building in 2016, which planned to build houses on the land.
Protestors have been occupying the site on and off since 2015, demanding the crown intervene and hand the whenua (land) back to Māori.