TANGOIO, New Zealand — The wharenui, or meeting house, stood forlorn. Usually the hub of this remote Maori community, it had been stripped of its wooden carvings. The bare cinder block shell ...

A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday, taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest challenges to race relations in two decades.. A statement released by ...

SYDNEY — New Zealand’s Maori crowned a new monarch on Thursday, selecting 27-year-old Nga Wai Hono i te Po Paki to succeed her late father as unifying leader of the country’s Indigenous ...

Te Pati Maori co-leader Rawiri Waiti gestures during the swearing-in ceremony at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Tuesday. Mark Mitchell / AP Dec. 5, 2023, 7:50 AM EST / Source : Reuters ...

The bill is unlikely to pass, as it does not have enough support in New Zealand's Parliament to be enacted into law. This has not stopped opponents, including white New Zealanders and Maori New ...

In 2021, Newshub presenter Oriini Kaipara became the first person to anchor a prime time news broadcast in NZ bearing a moko kauae, a traditional Maori tattoo that covers a woman’s lips and chin ...

The Māori Party organized protests across New Zealand, including in the capital, Wellington, early this month against proposals to roll back policies that benefit the country’s Indigenous people.

New Zealand’s parliament was sitting for the first time since the Oct. 14 election. Parliamentarians must all swear an oath to King Charles III, who is the country's head of state.

Sept. 5 (UPI) --A new Maori queen was anointed Thursday when the king of New Zealand's indigenous people who died late last month was laid to rest.A statement from the Kiingitanga, meaning the ...