"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."
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Women born in the 19th centuryWomen activistsIndigenous rights activistsWomen politicians in New Zealand
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Haami Piripi (25 July 2019) 'Not one more acre': The mana of Dame Whina Cooper
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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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