A lmost forty years after Stone first coined the notion of nature’s rights, a Maori legal scholar called Jacinta Ruru read ...

Tribal courts on reservations nationwide often rely on practices derived from the American legal system. For Esko's Megan Treuer, chief judge for the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, these practices can ...

THREE Maori MPs have been banned from the New Zealand parliament for performing the haka during a protest. The haka is a ...

New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori ...

The three lawmakers, whose record suspensions last up to three weeks, drew global attention last year when they performed the ...

Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer were banned from parliament for 21 days, the longest-ever suspension, while New Zealand's youngest MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke was ...

The haka drew global headlines and provoked months of fraught debate among lawmakers about what the consequences for the lawmakers' actions should be.

The Paiter-Suruí people have a culture deeply rooted in their land: the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land (TISS), on the ...

New Zealand lawmakers have approved the suspension of three Maori members over a traditional haka dance during last year's session.