Parihaka in Taranaki was founded around 1866 by Maori chiefs Te Whiti O Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi on land seized by the Government during the post-war land confiscations of the 1860s. It prospered ...

The Maori council of chiefs selected Nga Wai hono ... They chanted and screamed in praise and applause. Adorned in a wreath of leaves, a cloak and a whalebone necklace, Nga Wai sat beside her ...

In New Zealand, thousands of indigenous Maori are protesting the new conservative government's plans to review a treaty that was signed by British colonists and Maori chiefs almost 200 years ago.

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 ...