A view a history-making hikoi will lead to more young Maori taking up leadership roles

Tens of thousands turned out for yesterday's Hikoi mo te Tiriti - where attendees marched to Parliament, many in opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill.

Waikato Maori Education Emeritus Professor Russell Bishop says past movements of this size have caused political shifts -- Te Pati Maori formed after the foreshore and seabed march.

He believes the strength from young people at the march was extraordinary - and believes for every person who was at the hikoi, there would have been another who wanted to go but couldn't make it.