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

Members of New Zealand's parliament interrupted Thursday's session by erupting into a traditional Māori haka chant in response to a controversial bill which reinterprets a foundational treaty ...

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 traditional haka dance traces its roots to indigenous Polynesian inhabitants of New Zealand (Aotearoa ... and powerful chants. It was not just a show of physical power, but also an embodiment ...

The centrality of the haka within All Black rugby tradition is not a recent development. Since an 1888 tour by the "New Zealand Natives" led by Joseph Warbrick the haka has been closely associated ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has gone viral as her protest in New Zealand protest hogged limelight. Maipi-Clarke staged a haka protest to express disagreement with the Indigenous Treaty Bill in the ...

Festivals like the biannual Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival in Auckland celebrate Māori culture with opportunities to sail ...

The scrumhalf left by making a statement of unity as he led the Haka for a record 64th time. It came after peaceful protests had taken place around New Zealand in relation to the Treaty Principles ...

Indigenous "Haka" chants boomed across New Zealand's capital Wellington, as tens of thousands of people rallied against a bill that critics say would alter the core of the nation's founding treaty ...

New Zealand has set the world record for the most people to perform the haka, a dance of the country’s indigenous Maori people. The title has been reclaimed from France. The record attempt was ...

The new queen studied the Maori language and customary law at New Zealand’s Waikato University. She also taught “kapa haka” performing arts to children. To mark the anniversary of the king ...