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Maori New Zealanders occupy Raglan Golf Course, win back land rights, 1975-1983

Country
New Zealand
Classification
Defense
Cluster
Human Rights
National/Ethnic Identity
Total points
9 out of 10 points
Name of researcher, and date dd/mm/yyyy
Lydia Bailey, 09/02/2013

During World War I, the New Zealand government seized burial grounds and traditionally valuable land from the Tainui Awhiro people to build an air base and bunker. Ten years after the end of the war, in 1928, the Public Works Act codified the government’s justification for keeping the land. 

Waiheke Island, New Zealand residents protest the construction of two buildings on a historic burial site, 2012

Country
New Zealand
Time period
October, 2012 to October, 2012
Classification
Defense
Cluster
Environment
National/Ethnic Identity
Total points
1.5 out of 10 points
Name of researcher, and date dd/mm/yyyy
Iris Fang, 03/12/2012

On 1 October 2012, residents of Waiheke Island, New Zealand, protested against the installation of two pre-constructed buildings in Wharetana Bay, a historic site over 170 years old that is home to a Maori burial ground. This burial ground makes the bay a site of both archaeological and cultural importance.