whina cooper

Personal details

Full Name:

  • Whina Cooper

Lifetime:

  • 9 Dec 189526 Mar 1994
Biography

Te Rārawa leader and woman of mana Dame Whina Cooper spent her whole life fighting for Māori land rights. As a 79-year old she led Māori land protest marchers as they walked from Te Hāpua (in the far north) to Parliament, arriving on 13 October 1975.

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Events In History

Articles

The Treaty in practice

  • The Treaty in practice

    Amalgamating Māori into colonial settler society was a key part of British policy in New Zealand after 1840. Economic and social change, along with land-purchase programmes, were central to this process.

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  • Page 6 - The Treaty debatedModern New Zealand has debated the Treaty of Waitangi as never before. Understanding, reconciliation, protest and confrontation have been part of this
  • Dame Whina Cooper (seated on right) and others in the public gallery of the Court of Appeal, 5 May 1987