New Zealand, Waitangi

New Zealand marks 1840 treaty signing with Waitangi Day dawn service
Thousands gathered in Waitangi, New Zealand on Thursday (February 6) to celebrate the signing of the country’s founding document.
New Zealand grapples with nationhood on Waitangi Day
Prime Minister Chris Luxon has used his Waitangi Day address to settle nerves over his government's attitude to Maori and the Treaty of Waitangi, insisting it would "honour the treaty and work in partnership with Maori".
New Zealand marks anniversary of its founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, with quiet protests
New Zealand on Thursday marked the anniversary of its founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. The day came with quiet protests of government officials by some Māori leaders amid a national period of fractured race relations and the absence of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon from a gathering of politicians and Māori tribes which the country's leader traditionally attends.
Protests and a New Zealand leader’s absence overshadow a day marking the founding treaty with Māori
The bill’s architect, David Seymour, met with protests at Waitangi marae — a Māori meeting house — during speeches by political leaders on Wednesday, as he made a fresh pitch for the law. The measures are widely derided and prompted tens of thousands of people to march on Parliament in Wellington last November.
New Zealanders Celebrate National Day Amid Debate Over Founding Treaty
Thousands gathered across New Zealand on Thursday to celebrate the signing of the country’s founding document and some called for an end to government policies that critics say erode the rights promised to the Indigenous Maori population.
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What did the Māori chiefs say before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840?
The Spinoff presents a simplified transcript of the speeches at the treaty signings in Waitangi, Hokianga and Kaitāia.
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Why New Zealand’s Maori are fighting to save an 1840 treaty involving the Crown
An umbrella group comprising at least 80 Maori tribes has sent an open letter to King Charles III demanding that he intervene in New Zealand ... the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi and criticises the ...
Time For The Nation To Grow Up, Says Historian O'Malley
“The purpose of remembering isn't to sow division and disharmony but actually to bind us together as a nation that can openly ...
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A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
In 1840, Māori tribes and representatives of the British crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi — New Zealand’s founding document — in which the Crown promised Māori would retain rights to ...