Wellington, New Zealand - Indigenous Maori lawmakers disrupted New Zealand's parliament with a stirring "haka" dance, voicing ...

New Zealand’s parliament was brought to a halt on Thursday as Maori MPs staged a haka protest on the floor over a ...

A bid to reinterpret a centuries-old treaty between New Zealand's Indigenous Maori and European settlers was tabled in ...

The Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document, takes its name from the Bay of Islands location.

New Zealand’s oldest and longest-running specialist court turned 159 years old yesterday. On October 30, 1865, the Native ...

Those sailors lost their initial battles, but their descendants grew powerful and essentially dominated the island’s original ...

The Prime Minister needs to demonstrate mana and ensure that this is the case, for the sake of ‘peace and tranquil living,’ ...

When the Maori invaded the Chatham Islands in 1835 ... One conceivable reason is that there had been relatively little violence between settlers and Aboriginal people for the first two decades ...

destroy the MaorL" These mournful words of a well-known Maori soug, are-considered l)oth by the Maories thomselves, and by the Pake-has, or European settlers. as prophetic of the fate tt ...

The idea that children should be "seen and not heard" - first introduced to Aotearoa by Pākehā settlers - is one that Elder challenges in Dear Moko. Although this "older, more colonised" message about ...

The Far North is the nearest in climate to the tropical home of the first Maori settlers. They could garden here with plants like taro, gourds, and yams. Forests, coasts and wetlands were abundant ...

New Zealand historian, Adrienne Puckey notes that the first European settlers encountered a people who "understood that the most important thing – whether in love, war, religion, politics or trade – ...