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Winston Peters described Rawiri Waititi as the one with "scribbles on his face" in Parliament. Here's what an expert says.

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When a teenage Te Ahu Rei was caught kissing at a powhiri, his great aunt gave him a public dressing down. Parihaka kuia Ena Okeroa didn't take kindly to seeing her mokopuna showing such a lack of ...

“It was an absolutely fantastic ceremony and a wonderful welcome by the Maori people here,” said Spencer. “It couldn’t have been a better day for it, and we have great respect for their traditions, ...

The Spinoff presents a simplified transcript of the speeches at the treaty signings in Waitangi, Hokianga and Kaitāia.

Thus, in 1840 Hobson became the colony's first lieutenant-governor. The majority of Maori chiefs agreed to hand sovereignty of New Zealand to Queen Victoria.

King Charles III symbolically backed the Maori in their quest to protect their rights against the New Zealand government as the British monarch performed a hongi with ...

Pic: AP Considered New Zealand's founding document, it laid out the principles guiding the relationship between the British crown and the Maori in two versions - one in English and one in Maori.