A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday, taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest challenges to race relations in two decades. CNN values your feedback 1.

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 ...

A high-profile newsreader in New Zealand has publicly slapped down an irate viewer who had repeatedly complained about her traditional face tattoo.

The mountain known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name, is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which had ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people.

As Maori language and culture have become part of mainstream New Zealand in recent years, haka appear in a range of cultural, sombre and celebratory settings. They also have rung out in parliament ...

Maori Language Commission Chief Execuetive Ngahiwi Apanui hopes that by 2040, everyday conversations will contain a mix of both te reo and English. Not everyone in New Zealand supports this idea.

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.

But a Maori protest movement of the 1970s and '80s has led to a surge of recognition for the Maori language, ... "Te Urewera is ancient and enduring, a fortress of nature, ...