 Her methods included public civil disobedience and she is best known for leading the occupation of Raglan golf course in the 1970s.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 to have Māori "mana" (power, effectiveness) and culture recognized.During the Second World War, the New Zealand Government took land from indigenous Māori owners by acquisition for the purpose of a military airfield.