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 ...

Why New Zealand’s Maori are fighting to save an 1840 treaty involving the Crown. Maori tribes call on King Charles to ensure the New Zealand government honours its Treaty of Waitangi obligations ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Zealand’s Maori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died peacefully on Friday at age 69, according to a statement released by his representatives.

The mountain known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name, is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which had ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people.

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 ...

New Zealanders are marching, performing haka to protest divisive bill. The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular ...

New Zealand's parliament was suspended after Maori lawmakers performed a haka to interrupt a vote on a controversial bill. Maori lawmakers staged a dramatic protest in New Zealand's parliament on ...