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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal ... Taranaki was renamed Mt Egerton by colonial settlers in the 19th century (Picture: AP) ‘It actually speaks to what was envisaged ...