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Indigenous communities along New Zealand’s long coastline are feeling the double whammy of climate change and colonialism as extreme weather makes marginal land uninhabitable.
Maori community-owned providers, Maori community leaders, the resources and the support to offer vaccination services to their own communities," Tukuitonga said.
New Zealand is moving away from a "zero cases" approach to COVID-19. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Maori party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer about why she opposes the change.
Maori communities right across New Zealand are struggling with high rates of teenage pregnancy, unemployment and serious health problems. Maori make up a high percentage of the people on hospital ...
Eight Maori people from New Zealand spent the last week in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., learning about the Inuvialuit culture and ...
Meet the Māori people of New Zealand, who are preserving their culture through storytelling, voyaging, and language revival. And learn how you can respectfully engage with their living legacy today as ...
Notably, no members of the Maori community were consulted for the proposed bill, which could have a reverberating impact on the 20 percent of New Zealand's population that identify as Maori.
It was meant to be an inclusive gesture to New Zealand’s indigenous Maori community. But plans to introduce bilingual road signs featuring both the English and te reo Maori languages have ...
Darwin’s Maori diaspora will come together this weekend with a spectacular showcase of cultural performances and a ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Elton John has received a specially made bird-feather cloak for his many visits to Maori communities. “It’s the Maori equivalent to an Academy Award” and means ...
While the Maori meeting house has been in Chicago for a century, its journey to the Windy City took it through several countries along the way. Originally constructed in Tokomaru Bay, Aotearoa ...
Maori may have been first to reach Antarctica, ... In the fall of 2020, the authors held a series of virtual seminars to bring together researchers and the Maori community to discuss this history.