Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell expects to introduce legislation in the second half of next year to make it easier for Maori land owners to make decisions on land use to help drive ...

New Zealand's capital, Wellington, is built on land stolen from its indigenous Maori owners in the mid-19th century, a government-funded report said.

Maori groups in New Zealand are taking to the streets to protest family separations carried out by the child welfare agency and a planned development on their ancestral lands.

Co-governance in todays’ context increasingly means the sharing of governance roles of elected (openly public elected) ...

The dispute over the land, known as Ihumatao, threatens to upend widely held beliefs in New Zealand that any tensions between Maori and the government have already been amicably resolved, with the ...

The veteran New Zealand actor Rena Owen plays the 80-year-old Maori matriarch Whina Cooper, who in 1975 led a land march of over 600 miles for indigenous rights. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau ...

Ironically, by 1891 only 17 percent of New Zealand was owned by these indigenous Polynesians mainly thanks to the British Crown's settlements, which had dispossessed many Maori of their land.

Maori clergy and ministers were appointed, and there were distinctively Maori centers for learning and theological training. In 1928, the Anglican Church appointed its first Maori bishop. During the ...

An international team of scientists used data from Antarctic ice cores to trace a 700-year old increase in black carbon to an unlikely source: ancient Maori land-burning practices in New Zealand ...

Maori groups in New Zealand are taking to the streets to protest family separations carried out by the child welfare agency and a planned development on their ancestral lands.