A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

According to Maori ethos, Tama-nui-to-ra, the Sun God, had two wives, Hine-raumati, the Summer maid, and Hine takurua, the Winter maid. The child born to him and Hine-raumati was Tane-rore, who is ...

Auckland engineering students performing a mock haka in the 1970s. Photo / supplied In May 1979, young Māori activists of the group He Taua confronted a bunch of Auckland University engineering ...

KASHIWA, Chiba Prefecture--Some 9,000 kilometers from where the traditional Maori dance originated, children from a rugby club here gave a powerful rendition of the haka, famed for its iconic ...

The streets of Wellington, New Zealand's capital, roared with the booming chants of the haka ... men draped in traditional feather cloaks were joined by horse riders waving the red, white and ...

Britain's Prince Harry visited Linton Army Camp on Wednesday, on the latest leg of his trip to New Zealand. At the camp Harry performed the traditional Maori war dance, the Haka. Photo: AP.

The haka has become a part of popular culture thanks to the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, but the country’s U20 Div. 3 men’s hockey team brought the tradition to the ice. Watch as they ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.

Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New ... procession inched its way towards parliament. Bare-chested men draped in traditional feather cloaks were joined by horse riders ...