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Initially Maori had mixed feelings about the Scenery Preservation Act. The Member of Parliament for Northern Maori, Hone Heke Ngapua, welcomed it as a way to protect totara and prevent the loss of more kauri forest, but he objected to the way compensation was made available to Maori.

Maori rights campaigner Eva Rickard dancing at Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui. A group of protestors are seated in the background, 31 March 1995.

The Native Land Court was one of the key products of the 1865 Native Lands Act. It converted traditional communal landholdings into individual titles, making it easier for Pākehā to purchase Māori land.

Maori on their long march – Te Ropu o te Matakite o Aotearoa – from Northland to Wellington arrive in Parliament grounds on 13 October 1975.

This series of maps chart the loss of Māori land in the North Island between 1860 and 2000

About 5000 marchers arrived at Parliament and presented a petition signed by 60,000 people to Prime Minister Bill Rowling. The primary aim of the march was to call for an end to the alienation (sale) of Māori land.

Horonuku (Te Heuheu Tūkino IV), the paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, signed a deed presenting the mountain tops of Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu to the Crown for the purpose of establishing a national park.

Protesters and police at Bastion Point during its occupation in 1978.