{"id":36321,"date":"2021-09-01T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/01\/unstoppable-movement-how-new-zealands-maori-are-reclaiming-land-with-occupations"},"modified":"2021-09-01T05:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:00:34","slug":"unstoppable-movement-how-new-zealands-maori-are-reclaiming-land-with-occupations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36321","title":{"rendered":"Unstoppable movement: how New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori are reclaiming land with occupations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1975, M\u0101ori have been able to reclaim land through a tribunal \u2013 but its reach is limited and now they are exploring other options<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, a small pocket of land three kilometres from Auckland\u2019s international airport became the most prominent site of a struggle by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a>, New Zealand\u2019s indigenous people, to reclaim land confiscated by the crown more than 150 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ihum\u0101tao contains evidence of New Zealand\u2019s first commercial gardens, where thousands of hectares were planted with kumara, a tropical sweet potato which thrived in the warm and nutritious soil. The adjacent stonefields, today a category one Unesco heritage site, are rich with ancient nurseries and storage pits. When William Hobson, then-governor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a>, founded Auckland in 1840, the produce of Ihum\u0101tao sustained the growing population.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/01\/unstoppable-movement-how-new-zealands-maori-are-reclaiming-land-with-occupations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1975, M\u0101ori have been able to reclaim land through a tribunal \u2013 but its reach is limited and now they are exploring other optionsTwo years ago, a small pocket of land three kilometres from Auckland\u2019s international airport became the most prominen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,503,86,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-law","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36321\/revisions\/36322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}