Eru Kapa-Kingi, co-founder of Toitū te Tiriti, has led a protest movement against a controversial treaty principles bill. The movement culminated in a hikoi that grew to an estimated 42,000 participants, uniting people from various generations and backgrounds.
Eru Kapa-Kingi co-founded Toitū te Tiriti, a group which this year has led a hikoi and protest movement against the controversial treaty principles bill.Eru Kapa-Kingi co-founded Toitū te Tiriti, a group which this year has led a hikoi and protest movement against the controversial treaty principles bill.
At the hīkoi in Wellington last month, Kapa-Kingi addressed the sea of people spilling out of parliament’s grounds and into the city streets, their flags ofThe huge turnout signified not only a unified response to the government’s policies but a collective aspiration to “stand in our identity and nationality as Māori,” Kapa-Kingi says.
Te Kawehau Hoskins, the pro vice-chancellor Māori for the University of Auckland, said it was “not a shot out of the blue” that Kapa-Kingi took on the role. But Hoskins said that was “rubbish” and an attempt to minimise and negate what the hīkoi represented: unity.
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