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1977 Occupation of Bastion Point

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Abstract

This assessment describes the incident that happened in mid-1970 on the Bastion point. The historical situation that created 1970 made a negative impact on the New Zealand peoples. Through assessments, it is going to show the proposed that the land peoples are done non-third period. The land occupations happened because the governments did not support their people. The governments try to force their peoples to leave the land. In this incident, the major character Joe Hawke is the captain of the protection because the land is their life and the land peoples live together with their peoples.

The governments did not support their people; they sent huge numbers of the army to stop the protest. This protection runs for more than 500 days and the protestors are hard at work to stop the occupations. The governments also arrest more than 200 people because they protest against their governments and armies. At the end of the period, the governments failed to occupy their land from Joe Hawke and their people. At the end of the time, the governments try to sell their land for earning higher income but the protection stops the selling.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 4

Discussion. 4

Conclusion. 7

References. 8

Introduction

The 1977 occupation is the protest which occurred in the bastion point and this protest runs over 500 days at that site. This protest ran for a long time and then finished after the interference of the government. Joe Hawke and the action committee led this protest occupation at the bastion point. This protest is done by the tribal community in New Zealand. This protest is done against the sale of crowns. In Savage park, this protest occurs which runs over 500 days. In this park, the captain of the tribal community Joseph is buried and is the initial labour minister.

Discussion

In the year of 1976, the ruling government of New Zealand proposed to sell the housing which is reserved in the bastion point. Against this proposal, the tribal community of the country started their protest. The government sends a police force to stop the protest occupation which is running and also demolish their ancestral land (Schumacher, 2019). This creates a huge mass that affects many people. A huge number of the media and the news channels also cover this story. The protest occupation started in the month of January in the year 1977 at bastion point. More than 200 people restate the bastion point which is occupied by the ruling government.

It was a dark day for New Zealand history and the police force ended the protest by force. The police forcibly removed the protesters by force from the site in which they started their protest occupation (Feldner, 2021). The porters stated that the ruling government planned to evict them from their ancestral land but they held and fought for their own land, unfortunately, they had to stop their protest, and also they did not get any kind of support from the government.

Figure 1: Cover picture of Bastion point

Source: (King, 2019)

According to various reports, it is stated that the tribal community is evicted from their own land forcefully. Joe Hawke is the captain of this protest which takes the responsibility to protect the land. He was elected by the tribal community as their captain under which the protest occupation was held. The prime minister promised the people to back the land by the next week which never happened (King, 2019). Over 200 people are arrested by the police forcefully at the bastion point. Many activists were also arrested by the police that day and the captain was only 17 years old when he was arrested.

People are released by the government to implement custody over them again. The government wants to remind the tribal community that they had no claim on the land. The protest lasted over five hundred days. The determination plan is the reason that the community is growing now. The claims of the people are signed but the fight continues. Many people have died because of it and many people are also injured. In 1977 the Maori successfully occupied the land in protest. They started to live in Trent and they built a temporary meeting hall (Turner, 2018).

Various negative impacts are happening because of this protest and governments also fail in their duties. The 1978 protest started against the wrong steps of the ruling government. Prejudicial attitudes of the city are contained and the people who try to protect the land and the resources are arrested. This time more than 600 armies and their police forcefully remove all older, females, children from their lands. The policeman must destroy all the buildings on the Bastion point. The occupation constructed housing and new buildings.

In 1977 a young girl died because of a tent fire. In the 1998 new Zealand labour government Bastion point with compensations. The voices of the protector and the land peoples are always floating in the Bastion point air. At this time the people are protected for their land because they did not want to leave their land in the army’s hands. They work hard to build theorem houses to live with their families. Governments also did not stop their armies; they even sent many armies to stops the land protesters. The 506 days protection makes a good move toward their success.

Various reports say that the New Zealand government’s make forces to leave their land peoples. This situation creates major protections for the people. The protection became a big war for the peoples or the armies. However, this land is truly in Joe Hawke and his nephew also died in their tent. Many reports say that it was not a normal death, it’s murder. In this park, the captain of the tribal community Joseph is buried and is the initial labour minister. In this incident, many people were injured and died (Craig, 2018).

The porters also stated the ruling government’s plan to evict their ancestral land but they held it and fought for their land. Unfortunately, they had to stop their protest, and also they did not get any kind of support from the government. The governments also arrested many land peoples who tried to stop the occupations. Mostly the government makes false promises to their land peoples that they are going to send their land to them but this never happens. However, the governments did not return it to the land peoples although the government tried to sell the land for gaining better income for them. This historical war is always in the New Zealand people’s minds.

Conclusion

After analysis of these assessments, it has been concluded that the history of the Bastion point is always an inspiration for the New Zealand people. People are always attracted to their land because they live there with their families. At this time many police and army try to take their land from them but their protection and hard work save their land. This historical story motivates people to stand for themselves. This Bastion point incident meant people died to save their land and many people were also injured. However, they never leave their land in the army’s hands. This protection makes a major impact on the land peoples.

References

Craig, C. (2018). Finding a Future Together: How Heritage is helping New Zealand Heal the Pain of its Past. Retrieved from: http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1980/1/7._ICOA_1513_Craig_SM.pdf

Feldner, M. (2021). Remembering Berlin: David Bowie’s “‘Heroes’”(1977). Popular Music and Society, 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2021.1980322

King, S. (2019). The ministerial career of Anthony Crosland 1964-1977 (Doctoral dissertation, Newcastle University). Retrieved from: https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/bitstream/10443/4458/1/King%20S%202019.pdf

Schumacher, M. (2019). Subversive: Space as a Movement-Making Tool. Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, 8(1), 4. Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1158&context=tapestries

Turner, E. (2018). One Brotherhood in Aotearoa New Zealand: Protest, Resistance and Pacific Reggae. Music and Politics, 12(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mp.9460447.0012.204