Festivals like the biannual Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival in Auckland celebrate Māori culture with opportunities to sail ...

Taranaki Maunga is an honored ancestor to the Maori, something the New Zealand government has cemented with this designation.

As told by New Zealand, rivers and forests are legitimate human ancestors. The country’s most recent conferral of personhood ...

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

Thousands gathered across New Zealand on Thursday to celebrate the signing of the country’s founding document and some called ...

The odd move makes Taranaki Maunga "a living and indivisible whole" with the full right and powers of a human.

A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

Rotorua is set to showcase its "rich Māori culture" and rongoā as host of the World Indigenous Cancer Conference next year.

A New Zealand mountain has been legally recognised as a person as part of an agreement between the government and Maori tribes.

A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, after a law recognising injustices done to the Maori people during colonisation was passed unopposed in parliament.

The row over the role of the Treaty of Waitangi in modern-day New Zealand shows no sign of abating, with protests on the eve ...