Ngāti Rangi is reflecting on the "huge honour" of hosting this year's Matariki national holiday ceremony.

Matariki marks the Māori New Year, honouring the dead, celebrating the present, and looking to the future. Matariki was ...

The observances on Thursday come even as the Trump administration has been removing content about African American history from federal websites.

Matariki celebrates the Māori New Year and is a time for people to gather, honour the dead, celebrate the present and make plans for the future. This year, the public holiday falls on June 20. It ...

The museum's "DISplace" exhibit aims to shed light on the histories and modern-day experiences of Native Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest.

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It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...

The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants ...

Matariki, Aotearoa's newest public holiday, is marked this Friday. Here's what you need to know about what's open and what's ...

The University of Oxford received £358,000 to protect the endangered Enggano language, spoken by just 1,500 people in ...