While Indigenous people in many Commonwealth nations have expressed a wish to sever ties with the monarchy due to its colonial history, some Maori leaders prefer to maintain the connection ...

New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed Nga Wai hono i te po as their new queen and eighth monarch, to succeed her father King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII who passed away at 69 after a ...

According to Maori myths and legends, a demigod named Maui was fishing with his brothers from a canoe – which is now known as the South Island – when he hooked a giant catch: the massive piece ...

The ethnologist Stephenson Percy Smith reached this conclusion in 1899, when he wrote about this Polynesian narrative in a history of the Maori people, the early Polynesian settlers of New Zealand.

It was created specifically to reflect the side’s glorious sporting history by Derek Lardelli, an expert in Maori culture from the Ngati Porou tribe. “It’s ceremonial, it’s about building ...

Taika Waititi has made Oscars history. At the 92nd Academy Awards Sunday ... This makes Waititi the first person of Maori descent to win an Oscar. He was the first ever indigenous person to ...

Maori history and British colonization would be taught to all children under the new rules, which supporters say reflects a renewed recognition of Maori history and culture WELLINGTON, Feb 3 ...

Making 'The Convert' Before filming The Convert, Pearce said Maori history was "a new education" for him. Director Lee Tamahori, who co-wrote with Michael Bennett and Shane Danielsen, is a New ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... paid for by those who can afford it. New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed Nga Wai hono i te po as their new ...