Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand's founding document: The Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Māori. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon bucked tradition by choosing not ...

A Waka, a Māori canoe, is paddled at at Waitangi, New Zealand on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, as the country begins to mark the anniversary of its founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. Credit: AP ...

Roughly 600 protesters on Tuesday (February 6) marched to where New Zealand’s founding document was signed in the town of Waitangi, as official celebrations competed with protests against ...

The annual Waitangi Day celebrations, which also included free concerts, sporting events and panel debates, have long been used as a time of protest. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon of ...

New Zealand Maori activist Tame Iti gestures at the Waitangi Treaty House grounds ahead of Waitangi Day celebrations in Waitangi, northern New Zealand, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024.

Dame Whina Cooper speaks with demonstrators at a hui on Waitangi Day in 1985, when a hīkoi in defence of Te Tiriti o Waitangi was first held. ... The march will leave Te Rēinga Wairua ...

COMING UP ON WAITANGI DAY 2025 ... landscape of the country. Now, 20 years on, Tāmati Rimene-Sproat retraces and unpicks the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed March. ...

Waitangi commemorations in Te Tai Tokerau are supported by wardens from across the motu, with between 60 to 100 wardens from different districts travelling up for the week. "It's a lot of work.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has not confirmed his attendance at next year’s Waitangi Day commemorations in Northland. ... 18 March 2025 . Read more; 52 minutes ago. Type Listen ...

ANALYSIS | Waitangi Day commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document in 1840, but there's more to this Treaty than just putting ink to paper.

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed between many, but not all, Māori tribes and the British Crown at Waitangi on 6 February 1840 Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi in northern New ...

Waitangi commemorations in Te Tai Tokerau are supported by wardens from across the motu, with between 60 to 100 wardens from different districts travelling up for the week. "It's a lot of work.