Te Ao Māori

There are three main objections to ACT's idea for a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi.

An iwi-led initiative in Gisborne, Northland and Bay of Plenty boosted Māori participation in this year's census.

A Māori birthing unit recommended for Hawke's Bay is languishing in a queue of work Te Whatu Ora has had to pick up after DHBs were folded into the entity.

Many children grow up dreaming of living in a world of chocolate, but Thomas Netana Wright has made it his reality.

More than 1500 kapa haka performers from primary schools across Aotearoa are performing at a national competition in Whakatū Nelson this week.

A total of 78 sets of medals have been given out in an emotional ceremony, in recognition of members of the legendary 28th Māori Battalion, and presented to their descendants at Waitangi.

Tamariki from as far away as Northland are travelling to Nelson for the competition.

Experts say commemorations of the New Zealand Wars are at risk of passing by unnoticed outside of Māori circles.

The move will ensure permanent place for Māori voices to be 'heard, embedded and carried forward' in decision-making, the council says.

Ngāruahine iwi is changing the way it spends and invests to bring more benefits back home to its whānau and the local area.

Analysis: The 2023 election saw a changing of the guard in Māori political representation with several verteran MPs losing their seats to members of the "kōhanga reo generation".

Whanganui is the last council in the Manawatū-Whanganui region to establish Māori wards.

An iwi ranger on the Far North's Karikari Peninsula says a furore over a beach access road is highlighting wider problems of vehicle damage to dunes and sacred places.

The Māori lunar calendar and traditional practices of māra kai are the focus of a new exhibition at Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth.

An occupation is under way in the Far North where hapū are upset about a landowner's plans to put an access road through sand dunes they say are wāhi tapu.

After decades of collecting and developing te reo Māori words for sports terms, sports commentator Hemana Waaka discovered he'd come up with something like an encyclopedia. Audio