“Why not the university students? They know the law. They know the system. ” That was Dame Whina Cooper’s response when she was asked to lead the 1975 Māori Land March. She thought she was too old. But the people knew better. In 1975, as land across Aotearoa continued to be taken and legislation continued to erode Māori land ownership, a plan was forming. A march, a hīkoi, would travel the length of the country to protest the ongoing alienation of whenua. The movement needed