The Māori
1/26/202656 min
The Māori have had a presence in New Zealand for at least 800 years. For much of that time, they lived in imperfect harmony with the natural environment, developing a social and cultural system distinctly their own. But the age of European exploration from the 17th century changed all that. Over the centuries, their traditional claims to lands were eroded, and their population became dwarfed by that of the settlers, until the voices of activists grew loud enough to challenge the new status quo.
So, who were the first Māori? Just how did the arr...
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It's a drizzly October day in 1975 in New Zealand's capital Wellington. A teacher in her fifties pulls a shawl tight round her shoulders as she strides down a street, part of a procession thousands strong. After an epic journey, they're almost at their destination, the Parliament buildings a short distance away. The teacher is weary, but she beams, her eyes alive with a sense of achievement. Cars fill the roads as the marchers pass, many honking their horns in encouragement. On the pavements, members of the public gather, craning their necks to take in the sight or shouting words of support. Because this march is to protest the colonial laws that for well over a century have stripped Maori communities of their ancestral lands and other rights. And next to the teacher, right at the front, is the leader of the march, the beloved