A controversial bill that had set off New Zealand ’s largest-ever Maori rights protest was heavily defeated in parliament on ...

We try a bit of the language. We make it curriculum. We convert Maori culture into tourist attractions. And we love to claim the Haka as our own too. But this doesn't even scratch the surface of true ...

The bill would govern how the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and Maori tribes, is interpreted in New Zealand law. Watch her speech here.

Cheers and applause erupted before legislators and the public sang a waiata – a traditional Maori song – after the result was ...

New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the cou ...

The proposed law sought to redefine the terms of the nation’s founding treaty between Maori tribes and the British ... proposed legislation and leading a haka dance in parliament went viral.

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