Māori
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Waitangi Day celebrations struggle to mute politics in heated election year
Questions of sovereignty, inequality and New Zealand history hang in the background as political speeches fore…
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‘We are inextricably linked’: Māori tribe urges Sotheby’s to return relics up for auction
New Zealand tribe says only a handful of its cultural taonga, or treasures, are left after successive waves of…
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‘The original art galleries’: protecting New Zealand’s hidden Māori rock art
Few know of the drawings scattered across Aotearoa, some of them dating from first arrival of humans, but iwi …
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Where the heart lives: the enduring homesteads tying Māori to their heritage
Passed through generations of families and scattered across New Zealand, the homes are lasting connections to …
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‘Rage, but also joy and completeness’: bringing New Zealand’s stolen ancestors home
The remains of Māori people taken by an Austrian taxidermist in 1877 and displayed in a Vienna museum have fin…
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Māori tribe secures landmark apology and compensation over colonial atrocities
Settlement is the culmination of more than 30 years of fighting for reparations It took decades of fighting fo…
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New Zealand MPs pay tribute to Queen mixed with sharp rebukes of colonial past
While all lawmakers offered condolences to the royal family, several also discussed the monarchy’s fraught and…
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As Māori language use grows in New Zealand, the challenge is to match deeds to words
While the sight and sound of te reo Māori is becoming common in Aotearoa, advocates say the journey to a bilin…
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Snapchat removes Māori face tattoo filters after outcry in New Zealand
The filters had prompted questions over the treatment of sacred cultural artefacts on tech platformsThe social…
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New Zealand minister wrapped up in Māori language chocolate bar row
Anti-racism video by Marama Davidson featured chocolate labelled in te reo Māori, breaching rules against prod…
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Salvation of New Zealand’s dying giant kauri trees may have roots in Māori wisdom
The country’s largest trees, kauri are threatened by dieback and climate change. But there is hope for the rev…
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From garage to charts: how Māori strum helped shape the sound of New Zealand
The distinctive guitar pattern informs many of the country’s biggest hits, and remains an enduring cultural to…
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Aotearoa or New Zealand: has the moment come to change the country’s name?
It’s not the first push to adopt the te reo Māori name, but a petition signed by 70,000 people has given it fr…
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‘Ultimate honour’: remains of hundreds of Moriori returned in biggest repatriation yet
Remains returned from UK Natural History Museum as well as from across New Zealand, a century after being dug …
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Matariki: ‘historic’ moment as New Zealand celebrates first Indigenous public holiday
Maori new year legally recognised for first time, prompting excitement and debate over how best to mark the da…