Indigenous Maori lawmakers disrupted New Zealand's parliament with a stirring "haka" dance, voicing opposition to a race relations bill that has ignited protests across the country.

New Zealand’s parliament was brought to a halt on Thursday as Maori MPs staged a haka protest on the floor over a ...

Hundreds of people on Monday set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand's capital of Wellington in protest over legislation ...

A bid to reinterpret a centuries-old treaty between New Zealand's Indigenous Maori and European settlers was tabled in ...

Protesters, some wearing traditional clothing, were greeted by hundreds waving the Maori flag and chanting. On Thursday, Indigenous Maori leaders staged a haka, a Maori dance that was ...

Under the principles laid out in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, which guide the relationship between the government and Maori, tribes were promised broad rights to retain their lands and protect ...

Early Maori settlers ceded sovereignty to British invaders with the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and European settlers flooded in. Today, 70 percent of Kiwis, a common term for the people of New ...

New Zealand’s parliament descended into chaos as Maori members staged a haka in protest against a bill that would ...

Thousands of people joined a march towards New Zealand's national capital on Friday after a contentious bill that would reinterpret the country's 184-year-old founding document passed its first hurdle ...