The bill’s architect, David Seymour, met with protests at Waitangi marae — a Māori meeting house — during speeches by ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand. More than 80,000 people were expected to ...

A mountain in New Zealand – seen as an ancestor by the country’s indigenous Maori people – is now legally considered a person. The Bill gives local tribes more say in maintaining the ...

The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square miles (1.9 million square kilometres) ...

Taranaki Maunga is an honored ancestor to the Maori, something the New Zealand government has cemented with this designation.

The measures are widely derided and prompted tens of thousands of people to march on Parliament in Wellington last November. A Waka, a Māori canoe, is paddled at at Waitangi, New Zealand on ...

Taonga is a broad and encompassing word. In the Māori version of Te Tiriti o Waitangi the Crown granted te iwi Māori tino ...

Whether they were listening to the music, getting their face painted, shopping at stalls or enjoying food, locals say they ...

It appears to involve the merging of Maori tribal customs which were extant in New Zealand in 1840 with the Common Law which came to us when most of the tribes ceded sovereignty over New Zealand to ...