BARE-CHESTED MAORI warriors led 42,000 protesters to New Zealand’s parliament on November 19th. Some of the demonstrators, waving red, black and white Maori flags, had marched hundreds of miles to ...

According to Maori myths and legends, a demigod named Maui was fishing with his brothers from a canoe – which is now known as the South Island – when he hooked a giant catch: the massive piece of land ...

Ngati Toa, which owns the legal rights to the dance, said it supports Covid vaccinations as the best chance to protect a group that has suffered disproportionally from pandemics. By Natasha Frost At ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Ceillhe Sperath’s ancestors arrived in New Zealand nearly two centuries before Christopher Columbus set off for the New World. Yet for much of the last two centuries, the Maori ...

Elton John has received a specially made bird-feather cloak for his many visits to Maori communities. By The Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Elton John has received a specially made ...

Rugby fans can look forward to seeing the All Blacks perform the famous Ka Mate haka before World Cup matches this summer after a landmark deal was struck with a Maori tribe Te Runanga o Toa Rangatira ...

Activists perform a haka during a protest to demand an end to Covid-19 restrictions and mandatory vaccination in Christchurch on November 13, 2021. - Copyright AFP ...

New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed Nga Wai hono i te po as their new queen and eighth monarch, to succeed her father King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII who passed away at 69 after a heart ...

A Maori tribal group in Taranaki, New Zealand, is preventing Greymouth Petroleum from entering the site of a planned drilling campaign. The Otaraua Hapu, or Otaraua sub-tribe said it was contining its ...

The co-leader of New Zealand's Maori Party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, says the country's new COVID-19 strategy amounts to a "death warrant" for Indigenous communities. Earlier in October, the country ...