According to Maori myths and legends, a demigod named Maui was fishing with his brothers from a canoe – which is now known as the South Island – when he hooked a giant catch: the massive piece of land ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- In an ancient grove in northern New Zealand, the mighty conifer known as Tane Mahuta, lord of the forest, is threatened by the encroachment of a deadly enemy. It is the ...

A Māori tribe in New Zealand is asking Sotheby’s London to reconsider an auction of 18th- and 19th-century artifacts currently up for sale, pushing for the treasured items, which they call taonga, to ...

Hoturoa Barclay Kerr has sailed the world on his journey to show how oceans connect peoples, lands and lifeways. Kerr, the captain of the Hainui, an oceangoing waka, or canoe arrived in Phoenix from ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Ceillhe Sperath’s ancestors arrived in New Zealand nearly two centuries before Christopher Columbus set off for the New World. Yet for much of the last two centuries, the Maori ...

WAITANGI, New Zealand (AP) — In a fiery exchange at the birthplace of modern New Zealand, Indigenous leaders on Monday strongly criticized the government's approach to Maori, ahead of the country’s ...

”Now we are on the list of the rich and famous,” he says, tongue firmly in cheek. “The deal is complete the red carpet is ours!” Love is a Maori leader, a “kaumatua” (respected elder) in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a 22-year-old lawmaker in New Zealand’s Parliament, shot to international fame last year when she ripped up a controversial bill and performed a ...