FILE -Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, right, and her colleagues from Te Pāti Māori, talk to reporters following a protest inside Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.

Considered New Zealand’s founding document, the treaty was signed between representatives of the British Crown and 500 Māori chiefs during colonization.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.

Among them was a report that New Zealand’s arts, culture and heritage minister, Paul Goldsmith — who signed off on the new year invitation — had directed officials to remove some Māori ...

Protesters have converged in the New Zealand's capital in protest of a bill which would reinterpret a 184-year treaty with the Māori people.

More than 42,000 protesters descended on New Zealand’s parliament to oppose a law that would reinterpret the country’s founding treaty with Māori people. Marchers crowded the streets of ...

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New Zealand’s Māori King, Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII, died at age 69, days after the celebration of his 18th year on the throne.

Ben Trinick, a Māori winemaker, believes that Māori culture’s intrinsic links to the land can encourage more sustainable, regenerative practices in New Zealand.

FILE -Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke speaks to the thousands of people gathered outside New Zealand's parliament to protest a proposed law that would redefine the country's founding agreement between ...