 The roots of the renaissance lie in development during the inter-war period and the Māori Battalion, whose performance in the World War II won them many battle honours and decorations, with more individual bravery decorations than any other New Zealand battalion.The renaissance happened across a number of spheres, including the revival of the Māori language with the founding of the first kōhanga reo in 1982 and the passing of the Māori Language Act in 1987; the land-focused Māori protest movement, with the Bastion Point occupation in 1977–1978; the Springbok tour which led to international indigenous peoples connections; and the landmark Te Maori art exhibition in which Māori exhibited Māori art internationally for the first time.The culmination has arguably been the Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements starting in 1992, which have addressed the erosion of the Māori economic base.