He added that anecdotally there seemed to be a new “hunger and thirst” for the language in recent years, with education providers reporting wait-lists for beginner Maori lessons. Last year, a ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A teenage thrash metal band screams out Maori lyrics in its latest videos. A popular radio host is learning New Zealand’s indigenous language and sharing new vocabulary with ...

Hoturoa Barclay Kerr has sailed the world on his journey to show how oceans connect peoples, lands and lifeways. Kerr, the captain of the Hainui, an oceangoing waka, or canoe arrived in Phoenix from ...

New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British ...

In New Zealand, thousands of indigenous Maori are protesting the new conservative government's plans to review a treaty that was signed by British colonists and Maori chiefs almost 200 years ago. In ...