Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand's parliament, after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill with a protest haka.

New Zealand to debate suspensions of Maori legislators over protest haka In November 2024, three legislators from the Te Pati Maori party performed a protest haka in parliament against a ...

Across continents and centuries, Indigenous artists have harnessed the power of sacred geometry to create art that doesn’t just please the eye, but weaves together stories, landscapes, and spiritual ...

One of New Zealand's most celebrated voices has embraced te reo Māori for his new album, arriving during a tumultuous time for Māori rights.

New Zealand's Parliament Thursday rejected a bill targeting Maori rights that sparked protests.

A Wellington Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books, organising them by atua (deity) rather than by the Dewey Decimal system. The trial shelves can be found on the ...

It’s an exciting time with some new frontiers for Te Puia | New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute as four new staff have joined the team in significant roles.

The speaker of New Zealand ’s parliament has told lawmakers he will not consider further complaints about the use of the country’s Maori name, Aotearoa, in parliament after Foreign Minister ...

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

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.

Before it was colonized by Westerners, New Zealand was settled by the seafaring Maori people from the Pacific. You can visit various Maori sites and have Maori cultural experiences in places like ...