The vote was greeted by a ringing waiata — a Maori song — from the public gallery, packed with dozens who had traveled to the capital, Wellington, from Taranaki. The unity provided brief respite in a ...

with guides storytelling and singing Maori waiata (songs). In Queenstown, step into an underwater theater to learn about the Maori legend behind New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Wakatipu ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognized as a legal person after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being ...