Te Ao Māori

A Māori lawyer is creating interactive online resources to help primary school teachers teach Aotearoa's history and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

A Wairarapa hapū has been overwhelmed by support for their crowd funding campaign to raise half-a-million dollars to buy back land their rangatira was born on and where many of their tīpuna are…

Whanganui District Council's property and services committee has agreed unanimously to change the name of the Opera House to include an 'h' in Whanganui.

The new combined district plan for the West Coast will recognise the land rights and rangatiratanga of Poutini Ngāi Tahu by creating Māori purpose zones on ancestral whenua.

Mana whenua representatives in Wellington will be given full voting rights and will sit on nearly all council committees and subcommittees.

Poverty continues to be the major reason why Māori are the victims of crime more often than non-Māori, a new study has revealed.

The Director-General of Health has confirmed Māori health workers will be trained to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.

Māori King Kiingi Tuheitia, along with an entourage from his iwi Waikato Tainui, were in the High Court at Auckland today to listen to evidence being presented on an overlapping treaty claims case.

When moa bones were found 3m deep in the earth during a road construction project, it was heralded as a discovery of great significance.

A Bill giving councils power to write off rates arrears, make unused Māori land unrateable, and allow multiple homes on Māori land is a start to a wider conversation about Māori land, a Ruapehu…

The Hamilton City Council is to revisit its decision not to establish Māori wards for next year's local body election.

Cabinet Minister Kiri Allan's shock cancer diagnosis has highlighted the need for Māori women to get a cervical smear, that could save their life and reverse the shocking statistics.

The iwi will receive more than $8.1 million in financial redress, a $200,000 cultural fund, $20,000 for a marae rebuild, the return of 14 sites of cultural significance and an apology.

After a hearing today, the council voted to create a Māori ward in time for the local body elections in 2022.

Iwi representatives will be appointed with full voting rights to a new committee formed by the Whanganui-Manawatū Regional Council, Horizons.

Poutini Ngāi Tahu has settled its legal action against West Coast Regional Council over the mapping of Māori land as protected wetland.

Tears flowed as a taonga with whakapapa to Tūhoe prophet Rua Kēnana was returned home last week ahead of a symposium this weekend to reflect on his life and legacy.

The creation of a long-awaited independent Māori health authority has picked up pace, with a draft of the agency set to go to Cabinet in the coming weeks.

A Ngāi Tahu organisation is hiring 10 young people to train up as future leaders and problem solvers.

Aotearoa's first wānanga for Māori candidates running in local government elections is taking place in Napier this weekend.