World Cup is a win for Maori, showcasing Indigenous New Zealand culture long suppressed A man flies the Maori flag known as Tino Rangatiratanga during a 2007 demonstration in Auckland, New Zealand.

The country’s European settler government suppressed Maori beginning in the mid-1850s, punishing children who spoke their language at school and deliberately dispersing Maori families in white ...

Pop singer Lorde has released an EP in te reo Maori, the Native language in her home country of New Zealand. Maori artists say that this is just one branch of a larger movement to revive the language.

Maori, or “te reo Maori” as it is widely rendered in New Zealand, is one of the country’s three official languages — along with English and New Zealand Sign Language — but it is thought ...

New life for a once dying language For many in the Maori community, the plan is as much about signposting and preserving their cultural heritage as it is about understanding road directions ...

New Zealand’s central bank chief defended its use of the Maori language in official communications on Wednesday, as the country’s new centre-right government looks to roll back the use of the ...

In New Zealand, thousands of indigenous Maori are protesting the new conservative government's plans to review a treaty that was signed by British colonists and Maori chiefs almost 200 years ago.