In Social Studies, we've been taking a look into the conflicts and protests Maori had shortly after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. One of them included the Bastion Point Land Protest. From there we were to do some research around the topic and answer the questions.
It was given to the Crown by Ngāti Whātua as a defence site during the Russian scare of 1885. In 1977–78 a 506-day protest against a proposed Crown sale was held there. The obelisk in Savage Memorial Park on Bastion Point commemorates the burial place of Michael Joseph Savage, first Labour prime minister, who died in 1940
The land was occupied by Ngāti Whātua, and before the colonisation of New Zealand, it was part of important lands for the iwi (tribe), overlooking rich fishing and farming areas.
The surrounding land was confiscated by the New Zealand Government for public works and development over a period stretching from the 1840s into the 1950s.
Because of this, the people there stayed put and protested peacefully while the police came and dragged them out. They stayed there as long as months, not giving up their land.
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