She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on ET Canada, Metro and the Mail Online. HANDOUT/KIINGITANGA/AFP via Getty New Zealand's Māori chiefs have a new Queen.

However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% ...

TL;DR: Key Takeaways The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand Their population stands at around 16.5% of New Zealand's total. They arrived in New Zealand between 1250 and 1300 CE.

A historic demonstration in Wellington, New Zealand's capital, brought together over 35,000 people opposing a bill that amends the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. The march celebrated Maori ...

Her connection to the country known by the Maori people as Aotearoa begins with her family – as well as the landscape. “My family comes from a line of chiefs who have traditional rights to the ...

This stance, critics say, does not reflect the status of Maori as the Indigenous people of New Zealand or the toll of colonization. Introducing the bill was Seymour’s price for forming a ...

But Maori is also an official language in Aotearoa (NZ). Maori people used to be forbidden to use this language in schools . Now however there has been a push by Maori to have it more widely used.