Around 932,000 people, or 18 percent of the population living in Aotearoa New Zealand, identified with Māori ethnicity as at 30 June 2025, according to estimates released by Stats NZ today. This is ...

Princess Cruises has issued an apology for its "cultural insensitivity" after photos of non-native workers dressed in Maori garb surfaced on social media. Maori are the indigenous people of New ...

PARIS – Preparing the biggest homecoming yet of its kind, authorities in New Zealand on Monday received 20 ancestral heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a cultural ...

Jason Momoa reportedly said that he was terrified and anxious the time he auditioned to participate in Game of Thrones. He did haka (strong dance) and then gave his interview. At the end of the haka, ...

Our results showed that, despite having similar alcohol levels at the time of offending, 9.9% of Maori offenders received a community-based sentence compared with 3.3% of NZ Europeans. We also found ...

THE ALL BLACKS, New Zealand’s international rugby union team, borrow a Maori pre-combat ritual when stomping out their famous haka before each game. Their near-namesakes have a more direct claim. The ...

PARIS (AP) -- Preparing the biggest homecoming yet of its kind, authorities in New Zealand on Monday received 20 ancestral heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a ...