Taranaki Maunga is an honored ancestor to the Maori, something the New Zealand government has cemented with this designation.

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

The Maori people are the original residents of the two large islands now known as New Zealand, having lived there for several centuries. The Maori came to the uninhabited islands of New Zealand ...

But opponents say this "strikes at the core of the country's founding principles and dilutes the rights of Maori people." The proposal has caused backlash on both sides of Parliament after it was ...

Her connection to the country known by the Maori people as Aotearoa begins with her family – as well as the landscape. “My family comes from a line of chiefs who have traditional rights to the ...

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

The latest unemployment figures reveal that job losses are hitting Māori and Pacific people especially hard, with Māori ...

Te Pati Maori's Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said Children's Minister Karen Chhour didn't understand the essence of being Maori - during discussion in Select Committee on youth offending and boot camps, and ...

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is the second highest peak on New Zealand’s North Island.

A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, after a law recognising injustices done to the Maori people during colonisation was passed unopposed in parliament.

A mountain in New Zealand – seen as an ancestor by the country’s indigenous Maori people – is now legally considered a person. The Bill gives local tribes more say in maintaining the ...