From their first encounters with Europeans in 1642 to the Musket Wars in the first half of the 19th century, the Māori, the ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke and Te Pati Maori co-leader, Rawiri Waititi, talk to reporters following a protest inside parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on November 14, 2024 [File: Charlotte ...

Three Maori MPs face suspension from New Zealand's Parliament over performing a haka to protest the Treaty Principles Bill. The parliamentary privileges committee recommended suspensions for ...

A NEW ZEALAND parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Maori politicians for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber last year. The haka is a ceremonial ...

A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Māori lawmakers for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber.

In New Zealand’s North and South Islands, each Māori tribe (iwi) has its own history, founding ancestor or ancestress, tribal ...

A parliamentary committee has recommended the penalties, understood to be the harshest ever for New Zealand MPs. They said that the haka – a ceremonial Maori dance made world-famous by the ...

A parliamentary committee ruled that the haka could have "intimidated" other lawmakers A New Zealand parliamentary committee has proposed that three Māori MPs be suspended from parliament for ...

The Treaty Principles Bill was a reform championed by the right-wing ACT Party to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi in law, stripping rights given to Maori at New Zealand's foundation. The Maori ...

Wellington, New Zealand — The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now, footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been ...

A group of Indigenous Maori lawmakers could soon be banned from New Zealand’s parliament after staging a haka protest against a divisive race relations bill, drawing sharp condemnation and ...

This was a very sad day for Parliament,” she said. The Maori Party said it was one of the harshest punishments ever doled out in New Zealand’s parliament. “When tangata whenua resist ...