Te Ao Māori

The Waitangi Tribunal has found that the northern chiefs who signed the Treaty of Waitangi in February 1840 did not cede sovereignty to the British Crown. Audio

Erima Henare speaking in Te Tii Marae at Waitangi, November 2014, when the Waitangi Tribunal delivered its historic report, upholding the Ngapuhi sovereignty claim. Audio

More education organisations are to have their courses scrutinised by the Tertiary Education Commission, which identified the failure of a Maori performing arts course at the Western Institute of… Audio

More education organisations are to have their courses scrutinised by the Tertiary Education Commission, which identified a failure of the Maori performing arts course at the Western Institute of… Audio

The Tertiary Education Commission says students at a Taranaki institute who had their qualifications withdrawn may now - not have to redo the whole course; A environmental group wants to clean up the… Audio

A leader of an environmental group, the Health Rivers Wai Ora comittee, says its ambition is to clean up the Waikato River, and is collaborating with iwi, the community, and local government to make… Audio

Prisoners who will have to remove bone or greenstone necklaces could complain to the Human Rights Commission. The National Maori Tertiary Students Association, Te Mana Akonga, says other Maori courses… Audio

The National Maori Tertiary Students Association, Te Mana Akonga, says other Maori courses at the Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki will be under scrutiny; but the chief executive of the… Audio

Some Maori student advocacy groups says the 400 students withdrawn from two failed Maori performing arts courses at a New Plymouth institute have wasted their time and money; The Education Ministry… Audio

Maori student advocacy groups say Maori courses have come under fire following revelations by the Tertiary Education Commission about two failed Maori performing arts courses at the Western Institute… Audio

Robin and Sam Walters spent three years visiting the larger and the more humble meeting houses for their photographic book Marae. Robin is a photographer and film-maker and the son of well known… Audio

A Maori tikanga expert says the impact on prisoners who have their Taonga taken from them could be devastating; Eight staff involved in two Taranaki Institute's Maori performing arts courses have left… Audio

A Tikanga Maori expert says the impact on prisoners who have their taonga taken from them could be devastating; The director of Te Reo Maori for the Ngati Kahungunu Iwi says its dialect is almost… Audio

The Department of Corrections says pounamu or greenstone necklaces represent freedom and so do not belong in prisons; People who play a hand in the Waikato region's billion dollar Maori economy have… Audio

People involved in the Waikato region's billion dollar Maori economy have been exploring how to develop more wealth and ways to get tangata whenua into employment. Audio

A Māori activist and former inmate, Tame Iti, says prisoners are more likely to have their underpants stolen than their greenstone necklaces, and taking away their right to wear taonga is punishing… Audio

Hundreds of New Plymouth polytech students have been told their diploma in teaching Maori performing arts is worthless. Audio

The owners of the Lake Ferry Hotel are hatching a plan to reopen the historic ferry route over Lake Onoke in Wairarapa. The Lake Ferry settlement, on the shore of Cook Strait south of Martinborough… Audio

A Moriori Trust has told the Environment Protection Authority that it's opposing a mining company's bid to mine phosphate from the seabed because the trust says it could jeopardise 60 per cent of the… Audio

A Maori authority is in line to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year after signing a deal with a major Manuka honey exporter. A Moriori Trust has told the Environment Protection Authority that… Audio