Stronger legal recognition of tikanga Māori and Māori proprietary rights over freshwater and geothermal resources; A more ...

A Waka, a Māori canoe, is paddled at at Waitangi, New Zealand on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, as the country begins to mark the anniversary of its founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. Credit: AP ...

The case cites what the group describes as the Crown's "repeated failure to uphold the tikanga-based and Tiriti-guaranteed ...

Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand's founding document: The Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in ...

More than 1,000 people have marched into the treaty grounds at Waitangi on New Zealand's north island — the culmination of a week-long protest against a controversial government bill.

The Australian Labor government and some representatives of the Indigenous elite have praised the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand as a model for Australia; the treaty, first signed in 1840 ...

MERCER, New Zealand — New Zealand’s longest river courses through spongy green lowlands on the country’s North Island, a mighty behemoth that local Māori see as a living ancestor.. For more ...

The annual Waitangi Day celebrations, which also included free concerts, sporting events and panel debates, have long been used as a time of protest. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon of ...

A central North Island iwi has filed court action against Minister of Conservation Tama Potaka and the Department of ...

A man has died after being attacked by a shark off the coast of a remote island to the east of New Zealand. Jade Kahukore-Dixon had been diving off a boat in the Bay of Waitangi, near Chatham ...

Luxon's decision not to travel to Waitangi and instead spend the day with the South Island's largest tribe - or iwi in Māori - Ngāi Tahu, also drew a mixed response.

Luxon's decision not to travel to Waitangi and instead spend the day with the South Island's largest tribe - or iwi in Māori - Ngāi Tahu, also drew a mixed response.