New Zealand is deeply divided over the Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret the de facto constitution. Now the prime minister must stop it.

The speaker of New Zealand ’s Parliament told lawmakers he would not consider further complaints about the use of the ...

Winston Peters, who is Maori, objected to Ricardo Menendez March calling New Zealand by its Maori name, ‘Aotearoa’, in ...

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 ...

New Zealand's Maori make up roughly 17 percent of the population, or about 900,000 people. Maori citizens are much more ...

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 ...

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. More than 80,000 people were expected to ...

As the sun rose on the dawn service at Waitangi where the Treaty of Waitangi was first signed between the British Crown and Maori chiefs in 1840, some community leaders called on the government to ...

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 ...