Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Māori between the British ...

Recently, New Zealand’s cities have become home to ... It’s an attitude that’s encapsulated in the Hongi, or traditional Maori greeting and the willingness to share culture with openness ...

Festivals like the biannual Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival in Auckland celebrate Māori culture with opportunities to sail ...

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

Māori artist Jordan Tuhura hopes his Māori Doodle for global search engine giant Google will leave more than just a one-day ...

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

A controversy is brewing in New Zealand, as thousands of Kiwis recently took to the streets to protest a bill that would legally define the country's founding treaty — a change that opponents ...

A fight for Maori rights drew 42,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington on Tuesday. A nine-day-long hikoi, or peaceful march – a tradition of the Maori – was ...

New Zealand’s parliament descended into chaos as Maori members staged a haka in protest against a bill that would “reinterpret” the country’s founding treaty. The Treaty of Waitangi ...

A New Zealand Mountain Is Granted Personhood, Recognizing It as Sacred for Māori WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was ...

Wellington (AFP) - China and New Zealand agreed to expand their burgeoning ... Xi received a 21-gun salute and a traditional Maori welcome in Wellington before meeting Key, who presented him ...