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Maori Television will screen the free-to-air premiere of MANUREWA – an award-winning short film based on the 2008 murder of Manurewa liquor store owner Navtej Singh – on WAITANGI DAY 2012.
It was 2012 and Smith had only been a Māori warden ... there was no shortage of protesters this Waitangi Day, Smith remembers. Iconic whare tūpuna at Te Tii Marae reopens (5 min 13 sec ...
The first time Matarora Smith worked Waitangi Day commemorations in Paihia, she felt the wairua (spirit) and whakapapa (genealogy) of the historic place. Driving the windy roads up from Auckland ...
The members of the public are being invited to attend a Waitangi Day event at Government House ... an event at Government House by ballot. In 2012, 64 people were invited to celebrate their ...
Even before Waitangi Day commemorations start a judge has signalled ... Sometime in the "warmer months" of 2012, Harawira had shown her rear, in traditional insult, at marae kaumatua and kuia.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It's often a day marked by spirited politics and at times boisterous protest. But Thursday's anniversary of New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi ...
The holiday, known as Waitangi Day, is held on Feb. 6 to mark the anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi, a foundation document signed by British colonists and Maori chiefs in 1840 that establishes ...
New Zealand’s right-wing National Party-led coalition government used Waitangi Day on February 6, the country’s national day, to stoke racial divisions and divert attention from its escalating ...
ANALYSIS | Waitangi Day commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document in 1840, but there's more to this Treaty than just putting ink to paper. Treaty of ...