A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.
The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.
As told by New Zealand, rivers and forests are legitimate human ancestors. The country’s most recent conferral of personhood ...
The decision will offer reparations to the Maori communities living in the Taranaki region, acknowledging the injustices they suffered during colonisation.
New Zealand’s Parliament has yesterday passed the Treaty of Waitangi settlement for Mount Taranaki, formally recognising its ...
New Zealand has just been through the annual bout of anguished breast-beating that marks the anniversary of the 1840 Treaty ...
The two pou positioned furthest from each other each hold a mere (club) made of pounamu (greenstone), representing taonga (treasures). The two figures between them reaffirm the themes of tradition ...
The Spinoff presents a simplified transcript of the speeches at the treaty signings in Waitangi, Hokianga and Kaitāia.