A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

What New Zealanders regard as an inviolable expression of Maori pride ... The haka is a war dance. If you’re going to stand ...

According to Maori ethos, Tama-nui-to-ra, the Sun God, had two wives, Hine-raumati, the Summer maid, and Hine takurua, the Winter maid. The child born to him and Hine-raumati was Tane-rore, who is ...

A Maori coach from Auckland’s rugby association created an original haka choreography and lyrics as a gift to the people of Kashiwa, in gratitude for the warm welcome they received during their ...

“It is truly a privilege to experience the culture of New Zealanders, especially Haka from Maori culture,” Naomi Sai Antiporta said. “I want to acknowledge the people I have met along the wa ...

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In May 1979, young Māori activists of the group He Taua confronted a bunch of Auckland University engineering students in their common room as they prepared for their traditional annual capping ...

When it comes to the Haka, the northern hemisphrere is infactuated on everything about it. It involves scary faces, lots of thigh-slapping and loud chanting. But there is so much history behind the ...

TVNZ and Whakaata Māori are partnering to bring New Zealand’s largest Māori performing arts festival, Te Matatini o Te Kāhui ...

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.