However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% ...

One of its main services is finding foster homes for Pasefika and Maori children who become wards of the state under their So'otaga Aiga Pasefika (SAP) program. Ms Caroline Epa, one of the (SAP ...

Children at Te Wainui-a-rua, a Maori school on the Whanganui River, celebrate Puanga by making traditional kites. Every morning they assemble and say, "We are the river, and the river is us." ...

Writing on Māori subjects for broad audiences as I do, there’s a risk of opening a window on issues readers might have little knowledge of – though they’ll often have a view, well-informed or not. In ...

Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a conservative push to redefine the nation's founding treaty.

Jade Temepara has always felt deeply connected to the place she was born. The award-winning gardener and host of TV series He Kākano grew up near Invercargill, or Waihōpai, the southernmost ...

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 ...

I also studied Te Reo Maori for 1 year, so speak and understand ... I paused to raise and home-educate my 4 children (all adults now, and I'm now enjoying being a Grandma. I then retrained to ...