Ihumatao Land Confiscation

  • Land Confiscation

    Land Confiscation

    In 1863 on 12th July, the crown had illegally confiscated land from Maoris as a punishment for community allegiance and were banished to the Waikato
  • Ihumatao Land

    Ihumatao Land

    In the early 1890s the Maori decided to return but they discovered that it was taken over by Pakeha and then started indigenous suffering
  • Quarrying

    Quarrying

    In 1915 the volcanic cones in Auckland regions were started getting quarried for industrial devlopment and farming etc, a law was passed out in 1915 to protect the cones due to concern that landscapes were being eroded cause of quarrying. In the 1950s a cone on a side of the stone field got quarries until there’s was nothing left, it was the first site of Pa
  • Airport Extension

    Airport Extension

    In 2008 the airport runway got extended and the burial sites desecrated
  • Urban Space

    Urban Space

    In 2012 enviro court marked all rural land of Auckland’s Airport to be designated as a furture urban space
  • Spillage of dye.

    Spillage of dye.

    1000 litres of methyl dyeturning creek purple killing aquatic life
  • Housing Area

    Housing Area

    In 2014 Auckland council designated land at Ihumatao as a Special Housing Area
  • SOUL

    SOUL

    In Jan 2015 the SOUL organisation was established to save our landscape at Ihumatao
  • Fletchers

    Fletchers

    In 2016 the land was sold to fletchers after a major Auckland’s council decision
  • Indigenous issues

    Indigenous issues

    SOUL authority addresses the UN Permanent forum of issues in New York and Genova