Five years ago, law graduate Pania Newton and her cousins got together around a ...
AUCKLAND/WELLINGTON - Five years ago, law graduate Pania Newton and her cousins got together around a kitchen table and agreed to do everything in their power to prevent a housing development on a south Auckland site considered sacred by local Māori.
“When you look at our campaign you’ll see the majority of us involved are women and that’s because we feel this great sense of connection to Mother Earth,” Newton told Reuters. Māori, who account for about 15% of New Zealand’s population, were dispossessed of much of their land during colonization by Britain in the 19th century.
“Until very recently I never believed we could do what we did. If my father were still alive he’d think this is amazing,” said Iti, sitting on a plastic chair between the protesters’ campsite and a line of police. Many of those behind the protests against the removal of Māori children from their homes are young mothers, grandparents, midwives and adults who suffered abuse in state care as children.Laura O’Connell Rapira, 30, the director of campaign organization ActionStation, helped organize the recent Wellington march and uses social media and crowd-funding to build support the “Tamariki” campaign as well as the protesters at Ihumātao.
“There is a kind of willful refusal to look at the messy and hard and difficult stuff and the anguish that these actions are creating in Māori communities,” said Joanna Kidman, Associate Professor of indigenous sociology at Victoria University of Wellington. Down in the kitchens, 16-year-old Torere, who only gave her first name, has been posting Instagram stories in between helping prepare food or while keeping vigil at the frontline facing police.
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