The first time Matarora Smith worked Waitangi Day commemorations in Paihia, she felt the wairua and whakapapa of the historic place. Driving the windy roads up from Auckland, the excitement ...

In the ten minutes before the new Māori monarch, Kuini Nga wai hono i te po, was welcomed onto the Waitangi Treaty grounds ... Speakers on the paepae often use symbolic language, embellishing ...