A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

Thousands gathered across New Zealand on Thursday to celebrate the signing of the country’s founding document and some called ...

Kuini Nga wai hono I te po - the Maori queen - is expected to attend Waitangi celebrations on Tuesday supported by a contingent of the Kiingitanga movement. RNZ Maori news editor Taiha Molyneux spoke ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.

The emerging generation of Maori leaders is taking its place at Waitangi celebrations, inspiring rangatahi and building partnerships among tangata Tiriti. Maori News Editor Taiha Moilyneux reports.

WELLINGTON, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand marked Waitangi Day, which laid the country's bicultural foundation, on Thursday to commemorate the 185th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of ...

In Maori, this star is called Puanga. It's a period of celebration and remembrance, rooted in a deep respect for nature that is being kept alive by new generations. The Whanganui region is defined ...

The anger surrounding Waitangi Day stems from a controversial plan to redefine New Zealand's foundational document, the Treaty of Waitangi, and thus its relationship with the Maori.

Each January political delegations make their way to the Rātana village near Whanganui to be formally welcomed by the membership of this uniquely Māori denomination. In 1918, the founder, Tahupotiki ...

He nui rawa o mahi, kia kore e mahi tonu.” (“You have come too far not to go further, you have done too much not to do more”), are a particularly apt description of the recent celebrations of the ...

Maori members of New Zealand’s Parliament staged a haka, a traditional ceremonial dance, during a session to protest a controversial bill. The legislation seeks to reinterpret the 184-year-old ...