New Zealand has so much to offer tourists, from scenic hikes (“tramps”) to beautiful beaches to world-class vineyards. But ...

The Maori people are the original residents of the two large islands now known as New Zealand, having lived there for several ...

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 ...

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 ...

But Maori is also an official language in Aotearoa (NZ). Maori people used to be forbidden to use this language in schools . Now however there has been a push by Maori to have it more widely used.

Thousands took part in a Maori haka dance famously performed by the All Blacks before rugby matches. Ngā Wai hono i te pō has been crowned the eighth Māori monarch after the death of her father ...

New Zealand's biggest tennis event has featured cultural elements of the Māori, the indigenous Polynesian people of the country, on its Championship Sunday for many years—and the opportunity to ...

Early Maori settlers ceded sovereignty to British invaders with the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and European settlers flooded in. Today, 70 percent of Kiwis, a common term for the people of New ...

The mountains at the heart of the park have cultural and religious significance for the Maori people and symbolize the spiritual links between this community and its environment. The park has active ...