Made from hundreds of shimmering crystals, Reuben Paterson’s (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) Guide Kaiārahi is a ...

Wai 2700 – the Mana Wāhine Kaupapa Inquiry – will hear outstanding claims which allege prejudice to wāhine Māori as a result ...

Clarke, a member of Te Pāti Māori, or the Māori Party, broke out into a powerful haka on the floor of New Zealand’s ...

Five years in the making, Marlon Williams's fourth solo album was guided by the Māori whakatauki (proverb), "Ko te reo Māori, he matapihi ki te ao Māori". It translates to "The Māori language ...

Te Petihana Reo Māori was delivered to Parliament on 14 September 1972. Credit – Stuff Ltd. Sir James Henare’s words, “Kua tawhiti kē to haerenga mai, kia kore e haere tonu. He nui rawa o mahi, kia ...

Marlon Williams (Kāi Tahu, Ngāi Tai) next album ‘Te Whare Tīwekaweka’ will be his first album entirely in the Māori language. The first taste of the album is ‘Aua Atu Rā’. Marlon said ...

Maori people speak te reo Maori and have different tribes, or iwi, spread throughout the country. The two islands were originally called Aotearoa by the Maori. The name New Zealand was given to ...

The first kōhanga reo was opened in 1982, and te reo Māori was made an official language under the Maori Language Act 1987. Despite these efforts, there have been ongoing concerns about the ...

Over time, the different dialects of te reo Māori have been eroded by growing urbanisation, centralised language resources and the age-old desire to sound a certain way to fit in. The result has been ...

The interdependent relationship between land and people is woven into the fibres of te reo Māori ... That’s the essence of the whakatauki ‘whatungarongaro te tangata, toitū te whenua’.

hopes to challenge the government’s proposals to minimise the place of the Maori language, te reo Maori. After the government was elected in October, some government departments chose to revert ...

Politicians typically swat away questions about their appearance, but Te Pati Maori has wielded fashion as a political weapon. By Serena Solomon Reporting from Auckland, New Zealand The outfit is ...