A proposed law that would redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people has triggered political turmoil.

Earlier this week, tens of thousands of people converged on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament in a show of solidarity against ...

Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against ...

Protesters dressed in traditional Māori attire performed hakas while marching alongside tens of thousands of people through ...

Painting of Māori elder sells for £1.7m and becomes most valuable artwork in New Zealand history - ‘Thoughts of a Tohunga’ by ...

New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a ...

Under the principles laid out in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, tribes were promised broad rights to retain their lands and ...

Māori lawmakers performed a traditional haka dance to protest a New Zealand bill that could redefine the country's ...

On Tuesday, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of New Zealand's capital, Wellington, in what many are calling the country’s largest-ever protest in support of Maori rights.

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A recent protest in New Zealand's Parliament in which lawmakers broke into a Haka—a traditional Maori dance—has attracted ...