Found in serious breach of the Treaty of Waitangi for denying financial support for customary right claimants, the Government ...

The Government maintains it wants to settle with Ngāpuhi by 2040, amid warnings a New Zealand First bill forcing the iwi into ...

Its title signals it will not be a history viewed through a chosen lens, whether of post-colonialism, decolonisation or ...

Thursday is Waitangi Day, a day to commemorate the 1840 signing of New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. Here are some of the key events remembering the signing, that took place ...

The preference is for one commercial settlement but the government says it's open to recognising cultural groups under that.

Opposition MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who started the traditional dance, was suspended for seven days, while her party's co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer were banned for 21 days.

A watershed moment came in 1840, when Te Tiriti o Waitangi, known as the Treaty of Waitangi, declared British sovereignty over New Zealand. It was signed by the British Crown and most Māori tribal ...

Their protest interrupted voting during the first reading of a proposed bill to legally define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, the 1840 pact between the British Crown and Indigenous ...

Three Māori lawmakers in New Zealand received record suspensions of up to three weeks Thursday over a protest haka they performed against a contentious bill in Parliament last year.

The Treaty Principles Bill which is at the centre of the tension looked to legally define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, the pact the British Crown and Māori leaders signed in 1840 ...