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Behind the Banner: Inside the hīkoi mō te Tiriti
Over nine days, rangatahi and veterans of past hīkoi walked shoulder-to-shoulder to take their message to Parliament. Ella Stewart and Cole Eastham-Farrelly were there.
Apologise, then act: What Māori survivors of abuse want
One says it's just words. Another calls it a "waste of space". But the survivors RNZ spoke to all say one thing about today's national apology: don't stop there. Audio
The Māori activist group rallying a year of protest
The early introduction of the Treaty Principles Bill hasn't deterred a planned hīkoi to Parliament in protest. Toitū te Tiriti have mobilised Māori around the country this year, but who are they?
Late king's 27-year-old daughter selected as Māori Queen
Kiingi Tuheitia's youngest child, Kuini Nga wai hono i te po, is the second female monarch of the Kiingitanga.
South Akl kids will lose social workers to govt cuts
Vulnerable children in South Auckland will lose access to social workers by the end of the year.
Pregnant at 12, running from 'care'
The government took Joyce Harris's first baby and sent her off to a girls' home. Half a century on - and out of oceans of hurt - it asked her to be a mother figure.
Waitangi Tribunal 'a parallel government'
David Seymour has renewed attacks on the what he says is an 'increasingly activist' Tribunal as it faces questions about its future.
How the coalition plans to replace the Māori Health Authority
The coalition government got rid of the Māori Health Authority in a hurry. What is it doing now instead?
Kotahitanga in action: Hundreds descend upon Treaty grounds alongside the Kiingitanga and Rātana
As the sun shone over the Waitangi Treaty Grounds on Sunday afternoon, up the hill came two of Māoridom's leading voices, a true sight of kotahitanga.
The signs of a growing sense of unity across Māoridom
What a powerful iwi's actions tell us about the emerging response to the government.
本届政府与毛利社群关系走向何方?接下来三周很重要
从本周末起,多个不同的毛利社区相关活动将相继举行,也标志着新的"政治年度"的开始。考虑到本届联合政府关于毛利族群的政策,今年活动期间紧张气氛将会增加。
Three (very) big weeks for Crown-Māori relations
Analysis: Starting tomorrow, what happens at three key events will have a major bearing on the new government's relationship with many Māori.
The 'affirmative action' scheme that ACT wants reviewed
A review of the long-standing admissions programme for Māori and Pasifika medical students is either 'pointless' or 'perfectly sensible', depending on who you ask.
What does the new government mean for Māori?
A referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi could still be in play in the new coalition government agreement.
What might block ACT's Treaty referendum plan
There are three main objections to ACT's idea for a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Māori electorates to watch on election night
There are tight margins, party hopping candidates and the potential for electoral history to be made in the Māori seats.
What is 'race-baiting' and who decides?
Analysis - A policy is labelled racist. Then that accusation is itself called racist. Are we getting anywhere with any of this?
The falsehood Luxon was allowed to repeat in the leaders' debate
Analysis - It's clearly wrong that there are no health outcomes that have got any better under Labour. So why was Christopher Luxon allowed to repeat this?
My Māmā's love for Matariki
First person - As the country marks the rising of Matariki, Te Ao Māori journalist Ella Stewart writes about her Māmā's adoration of this special time of year.
How to hold your own hautapu ceremony this Matariki
As the Māori new year approaches, it is a good time to think about what you and your whānau will be doing to celebrate, and to remember those who have passed away.
Stay and risk the whare, or go and lose the whenua that's left
Māori suffered generational loss of great swathes of their land to confiscation. Now they face advancing waters from climate change, with few easy answers.
Māoridom reflects on Jacinda Ardern's premiership with mixed emotions
Several Māori leaders across the motu reflected on the prime minister's achievements after she announced her resignation on Thursday afternoon.
'Sadness, aroha for all parties' after bones found at school
Epsom Girls' Grammar handled the discovery of human bones at the school from a place of ignorance, but hapū quickly moved to support staff, students and whānau involved, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei says.
Māori students asked to perform karakia on human bones at Auckland school
Whānau were left upset after two Māori students from Epsom Girls Grammar were asked to perform a karakia on human kōiwi (bones) found at the prestigious school.