The Warner Free Lecture will be in Volunteers Hall Friday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. with Christina Thompson, who will talk about ...

land grabs and cultural erasure over more than 100 years at the hands of colonial settlers. There are currently 978,246 Maori in New Zealand, constituting around 19 percent of the country’s ...

After European settlers arrived in Taranaki in the 1840s ... The Maori are the Indigenous people of New Zealand, while the Crown refers to the government of New Zealand, historically linked ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

At the same time as its announcement that all of Hamas would be blacklisted as terrorist entity, New Zealand also announced sanctions on about a dozen "extremist Israeli settlers" accused of ...

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

A mountain in New Zealand has been given the same legal rights as a human being in a unanimous parliamentary vote. Taranaki Mounga (or maunga), formerly named Mount Egmont by European settlers ...

New Zealand on Thursday passed a landmark law granting Mount Taranaki the status of a legal person, in a move that recognizes its cultural significance to Māori iwi (people) as a sacred ancestor.

to the earliest Polynesian settlers, and connects them to the natural environment. New Zealand has a lot of old, dense native bush, and its ferns, vines, palms, fungi, berries, fruit, and seeds ...