Parks and reserves in Aotearoa New Zealand have been used as colonial tools, and it is time for legislation guiding their ...

“My language is the tongue that fits neatest in my mouth,” Te Rehia Theatre Company director Tainui Tukiwaho says, neatly summing up his New Zealand company’s reason for performing plays in Maori ...

Parliament's Nga Ratonga Ao Māori translation team had their work cut out for them this week as the use of te reo Māori in the House surged in tribute to Māori Language Week. This week is the 50th ...

A profound source of inspiration for the kaupapa. That’s what the organisers and supporters of this year’s Toitū Te Reo Māori language festival say was signalled by the presence of Te Arikinui Kuini ...

Hundreds attended a hikoi to celebrate Māori Language Week in Kaitāia. Hundreds marched through Kaitāia for Māori Language Week, in what organisers called both a celebration of te reo Māori and a ...

Hundreds of students gathered in Whangārei to celebrate Māori Language Week and the legacy of Māori leader Dame Whina Cooper. Video / Sarah Curtis Hundreds of Whangārei kura students marched through ...

The week celebrating Te Reo, grew from a single Maori Language Day that began 1972. Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori Chief Executive Ngahiwi Apanui-Barr says the idea of expanding to a full week started ...

Rocky Mountain College administrator Janine Pease watched schoolchildren create a skit based on Maori proverbs during a trip to New Zealand earlier this month. After the teacher described the ...

On “Kāhore He Manu E,” one of the striking songs off Marlon Williams’ recently released Maori-language album Te Whare Tiwekaweka (A Messy House), even the most casual listener with no understanding of ...

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities ...

One of 11 kiwis returned to the wild outside Wellington gets a health check. The results: “Excellent,” says Paul Ward. Predators in the area have been reduced to the point where these birds have a ...