[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Tama Poata was a member who was also involved in other activist groups, Māori Organisation On Human Rights and Halt All Racist Tours (HART), and was influential in the film and TV industry.
[11] Member Taitimu Maipi recounted the leadership of women in Ngā Tamatoa, describing efforts by Hilda Harawera in Māori language activism.
Ngā Tamatoa organised the historic 1975 Land March, led by Dame Whina Cooper, from the top of New Zealand's North Island to Parliament in Wellington.
This was an annual parade in which engineering students parodied the Māori haka, by painting male genitals on their body and performing with sexually obscene gestures.
Ngā Tamatoa wore black armbands to the celebrations to mourn the loss of Māori land, much of which had been confiscated or annexed by state legislation.