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Story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation

Hīkoi over the Harbour Bridge

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Hīkoi over the Harbour Bridge

Marchers on the 1975 hīkoi or land march make their way over the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The hīkoi was undertaken to highlight land grievances and was organised by Te Rōpū o Te Matakite.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-Ethnology-Maori lands 1975-03

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Richard Boast, Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation – 20th-century developments, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19542/hikoi-over-the-harbour-bridge (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Richard Boast, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.