New Zealand was one of the last landmasses to be colonized by humans. When Pleistocene megafauna had gone extinct elsewhere in the world, New Zealand was still inhabited by the moas, giant flightless ...

Over the past year a group of ta moko artists have studied more than two hundred toi moko, or Maori ancestral heads at Te Papa with the hope of identifying their iwi and eventually returning them home ...

Progressive author Ta-Nehisi Coates said in a new interview that while he took no joy in conservative activist Charlie Kirk's death, he thought of him as a "hatemonger." While they both lamented ...

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Ezra Klein to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this moment. This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra ...

I've been playing video games almost my entire life, with a particular preference for RPGs, Strategy Games, and 3D Platformers. When I'm not writing or gaming, I usually work on my own game projects ...

Tā moko should never be referred to as 'scribbles', a Māori academic says following comments made in Parliament by NZ First leader Winston Peters. Paora Sharples, haka expert and Māori Studies ...

Three Maori MPs face suspension from New Zealand's Parliament over performing a haka to protest the Treaty Principles Bill. The parliamentary privileges committee recommended suspensions for Rawiri ...

TRADITIONAL SKILL: Te Rangitu Netana demonstrates traditional hand-tapping. Traditional Maori tattoo artist Te Rangitu Netana, originally from Kaikohe, is home after a trip to Hawaii where he promoted ...

The Maori people, the Indigenous population of mainland New Zealand, have crowned a new queen after the death of their king — and she’s Catholic. King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII died on Aug.