Te Ao Maori

Nga Tumanako from Auckland have been crowned this year's champions at the kapa haka festival, Te Matatini. The four-day festival came to an end on Sunday, with the top nine groups battling it out on… Audio

Organisers of Te Matatini have thanked the Wellington region for taking the national kapa haka festival to new heights. The four day event ended on Sunday at Westpac Stadium, the festival's biggest… Audio

Reweti Elliott choreographed the poi for top nine finalist kapahaka group Te Iti Kahurangi and Tauranga based Tutara Kauika ki Rangataua at this years Te Matatini festival. The ex-performer talks… Audio

What is water if you cannot swim, fish or drink? Many rivers are no longer safe for our simplest needs. Dr Dan Hikuroa suggests how this might change. Audio

RNZ's Te Ahi Kaa reporter Justine Murray speaks to Jim Mora about Te Matatini where thousands have performed at the Kapa Haka Festival over four days.  Audio

Two Auckland Festival shows in March put waiata Māori front and centre - a free sing-along event in Aotea Square called Tira, and another called Tōku Reo Waiata. The brains behind the shows, Tama… Video, Audio

In 1993 Brierley Investments purchased a collection 34 original oil on canvas portraits of kuia with moko, painted by artist Harry Sangl in the early 1970s. They were promised to be returned to Maori… Audio, Gallery

When kapa haka performers say it takes blood, sweat and tears to reach the national stage, they mean it. Our reporter Te Aniwa Hurihanganui talks to performers who say they were pushed to their limits… Audio

Shannon Haunui-Thompson is at te matatini and talks about what kapa haka does for te reo, groups using the stage for delivering political messages and how Wellington is welcoming the kapa haka groups… Audio

Marcia Pohatu-Brown is the Kaitake Wahine (the women's leader) of the East Coast Kapa Haka group Hikurangi. This year was her first attending Te Matatini as a leader, but as Kathryn learns, the road… Audio

Kathryn speaks with tutor, winner and passionate advocate of Kapa Haka Trevor Maxwell. Trevor and his late wife Atareta tutored of Rotorua based kapa haka group Ngati Rangiwewehi for more than 15… Audio

Kathryn speaks with Te Matatini Chief Executive Director Carl Ross. With thirty years experience performing kapa haka competitively himself, including with many times winner Te Waka Huia, what does it… Audio

Kathryn Ryan and RNZ's Te Ahi Kaa presenter Justine Murray check in from Te Matatini, held every two years and showcasing the best kapa haka performances from around Aotearoa, this year being staged… Audio

Day two of Te Matatini is underway, with more of the country's top kapa haka groups set to take the stage. Te Manu Korihi reporter Shannon Haunui-Thompson joins Morning Report live from the festival.

Kapa haka groups are using the Te Matatini stage in Wellington to make a political statement to Parliament. From calls to honour the treaty, to promoting te reo Māori, and bungled treaty settlements -… Audio

The biggest kapa haka festival in the world has officially begun, with the first Te Matatini groups taking the stage in the capital today. People lined up outside Westpac Stadium from five o'clock… Video, Audio