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"Ngā Tamatoa was formed to push for human and Māori rights, for…
"Ngā Tamatoa was formed to push for human and Māori rights, for education, land and language." - Hana Jackson.
To what extent were Ngā Tamatoa succesful in achieving their aims?
Idea #3: Land
Ties in with Idea #1: as Ranginui Walker said: “this action brought treaty issues to public attention more strongly than at any time since the 19th century.”
Land March 1975
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“aimed to halt the loss of Māori land. By confiscation, legislation, and sale, Māori had become tenants in their own country, with just 5% of land remaining in Māori land.”
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Linda Johnson
"Most significantly it drew Maori together across iwi lines for a common purpose and in doing so created space in which Maori identity and Mana Motuhake was reasserted. It also marked the beginning of a more determined, forceful and radical activism."
Idea #2: Language
Ngā Tamatoa saw te reo as part of Māori identity, Wanted Māori to be "strong, proud, arrogant in who they are, in what they are."
Aroha Harris
"Some of Ngā Tamatoa's greatest achievments can be seen in the Māori language and education initiatives that exist today."
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Ranginui Walker
Ranginui Walker: That the leaders of Tamatoa were so relentless in their language campaign was due to their incapacity to speak Maori.They felt culturally disdvantaged and cheated by a monocultural education system."
Idea #1: Māori rights/Awareness of Te Tiriti
Syd Jackson - “They couldn’t find it... In the end they found it, I think, in a building in Auckland , and it had been attacked by rodents... That underlined for us the status of the treaty at the time...”
Waitangi Day protests
Hana Jackson
"In 1971 we went up to Waitangi for the first time. McIntyre was the Minister of Maori Affairs then. I got to my feet and told McIntyre just what Maori people thought of his charade."
impact for Māori, as the loud voices of Ngā Tamatoa cleared a space for ”more moderate Maori to step in and establish reasoned diaogue with the government.”
“So the challenge then wasn't exactly initially to us Pākehā, it was a challenge about Te Tiriti that put the treaty onto your mind map, even if it was in the vague unexplored areas it was stilll somewhere at the edge of the map. It came into Pākehā conciousness.” - Mitzi Nairn
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Yes.
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Legacy - perhaps not directly, but laid groundwork for stuff