As of mid-2025, 15 Iwi-Māori Partnership Boards have been established across Aotearoa, covering every region from Te Tai ...

A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday, taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest challenges to race relations in two decades.

Maori are sending clear signals to their iwi and other policy makers on what they think are the most important issues for Maori over the next three years.

The New Zealand Parliament has just passed a bill which gives the river the ability to represent itself through human representatives, one appointed by a Maori community, known as Iwi, and one by ...

The mountain known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name, is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which had ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people.

The Maori King or Queen is considered the paramount chief of several tribes, or iwi, but is not affiliated with all of them. The monarch’s role has no judicial or legal authority in New Zealand ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

Tribal leaders and water protectors from across the Pacific met in Arizona to talk about protecting waters, offering up their success stories.

In a first for Maori tourism a free Maori visitor app to the lower South Island is being launched this Friday. KUMA, (Te Kupeka Umaka Māori ki Araiteuru) the Māori business network for the lower ...

Finlayson said the local Maori iwi, or tribe, had been fighting to assert their rights over the river since the 1870s, in New Zealand’s longest-running legal dispute.

Te Arawa River Iwi Trust (TARIT) has made a submission to the Maori Affairs Select Committee objecting to a map that was submitted by Raukawa. It hadbeen accepted by the Crown and formed part of ...

The Maori King or Queen is considered the paramount chief of several tribes, or iwi, but is not affiliated with all of them.