He added that anecdotally there seemed to be a new “hunger and thirst” for the language in recent years, with education providers reporting wait-lists for beginner Maori lessons. Last year, a ...

Why New Zealand’s Maori are fighting to save an 1840 treaty involving the Crown - Maori tribes call on King Charles to ensure ...

Hoturoa Barclay Kerr has sailed the world on his journey to show how oceans connect peoples, lands and lifeways. Kerr, the captain of the Hainui, an oceangoing waka, or canoe arrived in Phoenix from ...

About 150 Māori and Pakeha aged from 6 years old to over 60 are picking up the taiaha to learn mau rākau in Hawke's Bay.

WELLINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday, taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest challenges to race relations in two decades. A ...

Phil Walter / Getty Images The Maori of New Zealand anointed a new monarch on Thursday, officially installing 27-year-old Nga Wai Hono i te Po as their second-ever queen. The ceremony capped off a ...

Who is entitled to sing in a language that is not their own? That was the question from some fans after New Zealand pop artist Lorde released a mini-album of five of her songs translated in te reo ...

Maori, or “te reo Maori” as it is widely rendered in New Zealand, is one of the country’s three official languages — along with English and New Zealand Sign Language — but it is thought only about 125 ...