カテゴリー: Māori
Questions of sovereignty, inequality and New Zealand history hang in the background as political speeches foreshadow a future in which relationship with Māori plays a central roleAt the estuary bridge connecting Waitangi’s treaty grounds to its townshi…
New Zealand tribe says only a handful of its cultural taonga, or treasures, are left after successive waves of looting during colonial timesA Māori tribe in New Zealand is calling for the return of treasured relics listed for sale by the auction house …
Few know of the drawings scattered across Aotearoa, some of them dating from first arrival of humans, but iwi and scientists are working to change thatThere are two tricks to seeing Māori rock art. The first is to let your eyes slowly adjust to the bla…
Passed through generations of families and scattered across New Zealand, the homes are lasting connections to ancestral landWhen the time came for the Makiha family to pull down their house, they decided to bury it. Piece by piece, they dismantled the …
The remains of Māori people taken by an Austrian taxidermist in 1877 and displayed in a Vienna museum have finally been returnedOn the shorelines of Wellington, the sound of weeping poured out into the thick mist of the city harbour. A procession moved…
Settlement is the culmination of more than 30 years of fighting for reparations It took decades of fighting for reparations but a Māori tribe has finally secured a long-awaited apology and millions of dollars in redress for atrocities committed by the …
While all lawmakers offered condolences to the royal family, several also discussed the monarchy’s fraught and complex historyAs New Zealand’s parliament gathered to pay tribute to the Queen, honours and admiration were mixed with sharp criticism of a …
While the sight and sound of te reo Māori is becoming common in Aotearoa, advocates say the journey to a bilingual society is only beginningWhen New Zealand’s biggest chocolate maker recently released one of its popular products with Māori-language pac…
The filters had prompted questions over the treatment of sacred cultural artefacts on tech platformsThe social media company that owns Snapchat has removed filters that applied images of sacred Māori tattoos to users’ faces, after the discovery of the …
Anti-racism video by Marama Davidson featured chocolate labelled in te reo Māori, breaching rules against product promotionA New Zealand minister has had to revise her anti-racism social media posts featuring a popular brand of chocolate, after the pri…
The country’s largest trees, kauri are threatened by dieback and climate change. But there is hope for the revered speciesLook out at the forest of Waitakere and you will see the skeleton of Aunt Agatha above the treeline. The tree – who gained her nic…
The distinctive guitar pattern informs many of the country’s biggest hits, and remains an enduring cultural touchstoneIn late 2021, a series of videos started circulating social media: a gifted singer belting out R&B and hip-hop tunes with a unique…
It’s not the first push to adopt the te reo Māori name, but a petition signed by 70,000 people has given it fresh momentumWhat’s in a name? A lot, when it comes to a nation’s identity.Recognition is growing within Aotearoa New Zealand over the importan…
Remains returned from UK Natural History Museum as well as from across New Zealand, a century after being dug up as curiosities by explorersThe skeletal remains of more than 100 Moriori ancestors, the Indigenous people of Rēkohu – or the Chatham Island…
Maori new year legally recognised for first time, prompting excitement and debate over how best to mark the dayOn the volcanic peak of Maungakiekie, astronomers and stargazers huddled in the freezing early morning to see the constellations of the new y…