A funeral -- known as a tangi -- for Kiingi Tuheitia is expected to held next week when he will be laid to rest beside his mother, Radio New Zealand reported, which added the Maori leaders will ...

New Maori Queen Ngā Wai hono i te pō leads manuhiri ... for Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi. Photo / James Pocock Tangi rang out across the grounds of Te Poho-o-Rawiri Marae in Gisborne ...

“There’s going to be a lot of tangi,” Trinder said, using the Maori word for funerals. Dr. Michael Baker, an epidemiologist at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, blamed social ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla have paid tribute to Maori King Tūheitia ... Haunui-Thompson told RNZ she attended the tangi of his mother, Dame Te Atairangi Kahu, in 2006, and said thousands ...

In New Zealand, thousands of indigenous Maori are protesting the new conservative government's plans to review a treaty that was signed by British colonists and Maori chiefs almost 200 years ago.

The proposed law sought to redefine the terms of the nation’s founding treaty between Maori tribes and the British crown signed 180 years ago. The bill gained wide attention after a video of the ...

By Alexandra E. Petri Kiingi Tuheitia, the Maori king who called for unity among New Zealand’s Indigenous tribes during his 18 years in his ceremonial but influential role, died on Friday.