The Parihaka Memorial at Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery
Channel: Difficult Histories: The New Zealand Wars
Date: 2021-05-14

In 2000 a memorial was unveiled in Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery to the prisoners from Parihaka who died during their captivity in the south after 1879 and were buried in unmarked graves. These ploughmen and fencers had been imprisoned without trial, and forced to undertake hard labour, for offering non-violent resistance to the confiscation of their lands. Professor Joanna Kidman and Dr Vincent O’Malley visited the site recently.