50 years ago, a group of university students banded together to push back against the system, and call for an end to racism. They were Ngā Tamatoa - young warriors.
They pushed for significant movements: they were vocal protesters at Waitangi, calling the treaty a fraud. They were key in gathering the vocal opposition to the Dawn Raids, rugby tours of South Africa, and infamously ending the so-called Haka Parties by engineering students at Auckland University. Māni Dunlop spoke to two of them, Ripeka Evans and Timi Maipi.
Māori Land March – Wellington Motorway, October 1975. Photo: National Library
