According to Maori ethos, Tama-nui-to-ra, the Sun God, had two wives, Hine-raumati, the Summer maid, and Hine takurua, the Winter maid. The child born to him and Hine-raumati was Tane-rore, who is ...

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 ...

New Zealand politician Rawiri Waititi broke protocol by performing a Maori allegiance before swearing an oath to King Charles. He and five other parliamentarians chose to first pledge allegiance ...

New Zealand has set the world record for the most people to perform the haka, a dance of the country’s indigenous Maori people ... around 1920 by Te Rauparaha, chief of the Ngati Toa iwi ...

The bill gained wide attention after a video of the nation’s youngest legislator, Maori member Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, tearing up a copy of the proposed legislation and leading a haka dance ...