PARIS (Reuters) - French parliament is set to approve on Tuesday the restitution of tattooed, mummified heads of Maori warriors to New Zealand, centuries after they were brought to Europe and ...

WELLINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday, taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest challenges to race relations in two decades. A ...

New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed Nga Wai hono i te po as their new queen and eighth monarch, to succeed her father King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII who passed away at 69 after a heart ...

In New Zealand, the homemade ONCE WERE WARRIORS has recently surpassed "Jurassic Park" to become the most successful film in the country's history. The brutal domestic realism of Lee Tamahori's film ...

An umbrella group comprising at least 80 Maori tribes has sent an open letter to King Charles III demanding that he intervene in New Zealand politics and ensure the government honours its obligations ...

New Zealand's Maori make up roughly 17 percent of the population, or about 900,000 people. Maori citizens are much more likely than other New Zealanders to be unemployed, live in poverty or suffer ...

Parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members performed a haka — a traditional ceremonial group dance — to disrupt the vote on a controversial bill. The haka is a powerful ...

Wellington: New Zealand’s Parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after people in the public gallery broke into an unsanctioned haka, a traditional Maori dance, moments after the newest Maori ...