Visitors to the Womad international arts festival in New Plymouth this weekend are being offered the opportunity to try their hand at the ancient Maori martial art of mau rakau. Taranaki Whanganui ...

Hosted at Te Paepae - the cultural heartbeat of the festival - groups of about 20 at a time are being encouraged to connect ...

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

Can Starbucks' four-hour anti-bias training correct a history of racism in America? The colonial government’s policies didn’t help either. In 1847, it banned the use of Maori education.

Using structured literacy to teach te reo Māori is more about an educational ideology than about understanding the essence of ...

The speaker of New Zealand ’s Parliament told lawmakers he would not consider further complaints about the use of the ...

Today we introduce some jolly traditional Korean snacks to some Maori people we met in New Zealand. Buy Josh’s autobiography (written by Ollie) here: <a href=" Huge thanks to everyone involved in the ...

All are in Otehei bay and many were part of the famous Zane Grey fishing camp. Before European’s arrived the Bay of Islands was a populous place with a complex political, ancestral, and cultural ...

2007 — Lance Mackey wins the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, becoming the first musher to win major long-distance North ...

However, seeing te reo Māori as part of a way of understanding the world places value not just on words, but also on the way the language is inherent in Māori thinking, history, experience and ...