Letters to Ihumātao

1000 words: Pania Newton at Ihumātao

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1000 Words is a Spinoff series talking to the photographers behind our most iconic political images. In this instalment, Don Rowe speaks to Chris McKeen, the photographer who shot Pania Newton at Ihumātao.  The story of Ihumātao is, in a certain sense, one of timing and potentiality. At a moment of ascension for a new … Read more

Ihumātao isn’t about young versus old, but new versus old-fashioned

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The land protection movement at Ihumātao may have wrongly been pitted as rangatahi versus rangatira, but there’s no denying it has given rise to a new generation of leaders and values. Have Treaty settlements and tribally controlled assets changed how iwi leaders see land, and is it time for recalibration? The tension that gave rise … Read more