A controversy is brewing in New Zealand, as thousands of Kiwis recently took to the streets to protest a bill that would ...

They are represented by Te Pati Maori, or the Maori Party, which currently holds six of the 123 seats in Parliament. On February 6, 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi, also called Te Tiriti o Waitangi ...

Members of New Zealand's parliament have rallied the international community in support of the island country's indigenous ...

Children marched alongside adults bearing distinctive full-face Maori “moko” tattoos and clutching ceremonial wooden weapons.

The British government and Maori chiefs signed the treaty in 1840 enshrining the rights of the country’s First Nations people ...

Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as thousands rallied against a ...

It is the constitutional document. SHAPIRO: Rawiri Waititi is the co-leader of the Te Pati Maori party. He spoke in front of Parliament against the bill. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

Parliamentarians first voted on the bill on Thursday, during which legislator Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke from the Te Pati Maori party ripped up a copy of the bill and led her colleagues in a ...

After it was presented for debate in parliament last week, 22-year-old Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke took to her feet in the chamber, ripped the bill in half, and launched into a haka.

or the Maori Party, was asked to state how her party was voting on the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret New Zealand’s foundational agreement between the British ...