March
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- On the 14th of September, 1975 a land march that would start in Te Hapua led by Whina Cooper the inaugural president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, begun. It was only 50 people, but that would soon reach the thousands.
- The marchers would stay over night at different marae (Courtyard of a Maori meeting house) during that time Whina Cooper would lead discussions about the purpose of the march.
- In the span of around 1 month, the march went from Te Hapua all the way to Wellington. The land march got more and more people along the way from the places they would stop at. Some of the places they stopped at were Te Kao, Auckland (They stayed there for 2 days) and Ratanga. They would usually only stop at the places for 1 day and keep moving, but some they might have stayed for longer.
- On the 23rd of September, the march crossed the Auckland Harbour Bridge. If you looked an image taken of the people on the bridge, it would look like the entire bridge was going to break due to the amount of people on it. (It won't actually break it just seemed like it)
- Hangi (a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food) Workers would pile up boulders to cook food for the Maori Land Marchers. They used machines to dig up the boulders.
- On the 13th of October 1975, the Land March arrived at the Wellington Parliament to protest. They walked a total of 1100 km to reach Wellington. A memorial of rights which was signed by 60000 people was prepared and presented to the Prime Minister at the time Bill Rowling.
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