Eva Rickard

Eva Rickard was most notably regarded for her decade long, very public civil disobedience campaigns to have ancestral lands alongside Raglan harbour returned to the local tribes and Māori mana (power, effectiveness) and culture recognised.

During the Second World War, the New Zealand Government took land from indigenous Māori owners by acquisition for the purpose of a military airfield.

The land was not returned to the Tainui Awhiro peoples following the war; instead, a 62-acre (250,000 m2) block was turned into a public Raglan golf course in 1969.

After attempting to reoccupy this ancestral indigenous land in 1978, she was arrested for trespass along with another 19 Māori protesters on the ninth hole of the Raglan golf course.

Mana Māori incorporated the smaller Te Tawharau and Piri Wiri Tua parties.