Whina Cooper

Dame Whina Cooper (9 December 1895 – 26 March 1994) was a Māori leader and activist from New Zealand who led the 1975 Māori land march from Te Hapua to Wellington, a distance of 1,100 km, at the age of 79.

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"Not one more acre."

- Whina Cooper

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"Let us all remember that the Treaty was signed so that we could all live as one nation in Aotearoa."

- Whina Cooper

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"She was the person that galvanised all the array of different issues, opinions, claims, angsts that different communities had had around alienation of land, loss of authority and she really encapsulated that into the march and the term not one more acre."

- Whina Cooper

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"Dame Whina was very strong willed and believed in fighting for things that benefited Maori. She didn't care who was in power, but believed that not one more acre of land should be alienated from Māori without Māori consent."

- Whina Cooper

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