As told by New Zealand, rivers and forests are legitimate human ancestors. The country’s most recent conferral of personhood ...
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
The Maori people are the original residents of the two large islands now known as New Zealand, having lived there for several centuries. The Maori came to the uninhabited islands of New Zealand ...
Thousands gathered across New Zealand on Thursday to celebrate the signing of the country’s founding document and some called ...
The latest unemployment figures reveal that job losses are hitting Māori and Pacific people especially hard, with Māori ...
Today we introduce some jolly traditional Korean snacks to some Maori people we met in New Zealand. Buy Josh’s autobiography ...
A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.
The row over the role of the Treaty of Waitangi in modern-day New Zealand shows no sign of abating, with protests on the eve ...
But opponents say this "strikes at the core of the country's founding principles and dilutes the rights of Maori people." The proposal has caused backlash on both sides of Parliament after it was ...
Her connection to the country known by the Maori people as Aotearoa begins with her family – as well as the landscape. “My family comes from a line of chiefs who have traditional rights to the ...
A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, after a law recognising injustices done to the Maori people during colonisation was passed unopposed in parliament.
The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.