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… president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, Dame Whina Cooper, led an ad hoc organisation, Te Rōpū Matakite (the …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… to Parliament in Wellington to protest about land loss. Whina Cooper, who had been the inaugural president of the Māori … hīkoi left Te Hāpua on 14 September (Māori language day). Cooper took the first steps, holding the hand of her …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements
… home of one of Northland’s most famous 20th-century elders, Whina Cooper. Economic activity Hokianga soon became a busy centre …
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Part of story: Northland places
… was recognised as ‘the greatest Māori woman of our time’. 2 Whina Cooper was born in northern Hokianga in 1895. She became the … opening of the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, Dame Whina called on the country to ‘remember that the Treaty was …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… and worked closely with Northland Māori leaders, such as Whina Cooper , actively backing their project to build a canoe for …
Type: Biography
… march In 1975 a group of Māori led by kuia (female elder) Whina Cooper organised a hīkoi (march) from Northland to …
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Part of story: Parades and protest marches
… role in Treaty of Waitangi politics since the 1960s. Whina Cooper led the 1975 Māori land march from Te Hāpua to …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… most prominent Māori Catholics in the 1950s and 1960s was Whina Cooper (Te Rarawa), from the Hokianga. She moved her family …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… under the direction of Te Rangiataahua (Rangi) Royal. Whina Cooper was the first president and Miraka (Mira) Petricevich …
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Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements
… land march of 1975, led by the formidable Te Rarawa elder Whina Cooper, brought Māori political issues to the centre of …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… Māori MP to greet another prominent wāhine, Dame Whina Cooper , was a career highlight for Kura. ‘Tania’ had a …
Type: Biography
… by some to the Māori women activists of her day, such as Whina Cooper and Eva Rickard . In the early 1970s she also worked …
Type: Biography
… 1908, just 61,000 hectares remained in Māori hands. In 1975 Whina Cooper, a descendant of Waimirirangi, brought the issue to …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… patron, Te Puea Hērangi , and the first national president, Whina Cooper . Mira looked up to them as mother figures and they responded with aroha (love) and openness. Mira drove Whina around the country, recording hui and conversing in te …
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… Book Award in 1984. He followed this with a biography of Whina Cooper , the charismatic leader of the 1975 Māori land march … text while writing fellow at Victoria University, although Whina (1983) was aimed primarily at a popular rather than an …
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… took 25 bookings. Her appearances included joining Whina Cooper on the steps of Parliament at the end of the 1975 …
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… against the continuing alienation of Māori land. Led by Whina Cooper, it gathered strength as it moved south and filled …
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Part of story: Public protest