Locals also said the group was breaking rules and \u201cpissing people off\u201d.<\/p>\n
Freedom campers on Milford Beach on October 9. Photo \/ Jason Dorday<\/p>\n
H\u012bkoi co-organiser Te Rewiti said the group has had \u201ca few arrests along the way\u201d. He described the group\u2019s time in Milford as \u201cinteresting\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of those rich people, they look down on us. Some of them look us up and down, but others don\u2019t. The others, they get it \u2026 All those riches and all those material things are shallow things.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it\u2019s just to remind them, hey, we\u2019re still around. We\u2019re just exercising our rights with aroha, and we look after the places where we go to.\u201d<\/p>\n
One van displayed \u201cF** Da\u2019 Govt\u201d and \u201cwe did not cede\u201d signs, while a flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand waved in the wind.<\/p>\n
Auckland Council compliance manager Adrian Wilson said they \u201creceived complaints from members of the public regarding this group, and our community safety team engaged with members last week\u201d. <\/p>\n
A \u201cF** Da\u2019 Govt\u201d sign could be seen on a van at the campsite. Photo \/ Jason Dorday<\/p>\n
\u201cThe group is part of a h\u012bkoi walking along the highway and is being monitored by police as it makes its way to Waitangi, and we understand they moved on from Milford Beach over the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Hikoi For Remedy #1835 describes itself as \u201ca collective of people, who choose to exercise and activate our Tino Rangatiratanga, looking for pathways forward, remedy and continuously pushing boundaries, that we may escape the hinaki (trap) that we have systematically been placed into\u201d.<\/p>\n
Te Rewiti said \u201cour sovereignty has been taken from us\u201d and the movement is a protest against \u201cillegitimate\u201d governments, laws and authority. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen our ancestors signed those sacred documents, we\u2019re talking about Te Tiriti o Waitangi and He Whakaputanga, they never ceded their Tino Rangatiratanga.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, by policy, by force and by operation of law, our sovereignty has been taken from us. It was never freely given.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rawinia Horomia Te Rito, who was at the 2022 Wellington protest and recently joined the group, said the movement taught her a history that \u201cwe weren\u2019t educated about\u201d.<\/p>\n
Rawinia Horomia Te Rito joined the h\u012bkoi because she “agrees with what they’re talking about”. Photo \/ Jason Dorday<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve come on this h\u012bkoi because I agree with what they\u2019re talking about … We went to Wellington, picked up the mauri [from the 2022 protest] and we\u2019re taking it back up to Waitangi.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just here for my mokopuna, for our future generations, to make sure that governments aren\u2019t making those decisions for us, and they can have a chance for the future. It\u2019s about food, it\u2019s about housing, it\u2019s about living.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said police had visited the Milford Beach campsite.<\/p>\n
Te Rewiti said the anti-government sentiment is a protest against \u201cillegitimate authority\u201d and \u201coverreach\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel that we\u2019ve been pushed for far too long, and it\u2019s not just M\u0101ori, it\u2019s now everybody. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey all serve money. They all serve banks and the super rich.\u201d<\/p>\n
About \u201cfour or five\u201d people at a time have taken part in the h\u012bkoi across the North Island, with people joining the walks and various camps along the way. <\/p>\n
The group, currently at Mangawhai Heads, plans to reach Waitangi later this month ahead of the October 28 He Whakaputanga commemorations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Locals also said the group was breaking rules and \u201cpissing people off\u201d. Freedom campers on Milford Beach on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34891,51,7972,10040,30701,5205,2004,308235,76322,308236,78,685,92898,111,43,139,69,675,21271,12064,1516,17294,56329,9863,686,102],"class_list":["post-627983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-affluent","tag-auckland","tag-beach","tag-camp","tag-complaints","tag-council","tag-engagement","tag-freedomcampers","tag-hkoi","tag-hkois","tag-in","tag-last","tag-milford","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-prompt","tag-prompted","tag-staff","tag-suburb","tag-threeday","tag-visit","tag-week","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}