The Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document, takes its name from the Bay of Islands location.

The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, ...

New Zealand’s Parliament was temporarily suspended on Thursday as Māori lawmakers performed a haka, a traditional group dance ...

New Zealand's parliament suspended proceedings after Maori Party MPs protested against a controversial tribal rights bill by ...

New Zealand’s youngest MP Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke has caught limelight for a dramatic protest at the Parliament.

Thousands march across New Zealand in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill, with a historic hikoi heading to the capital. The bill, criticized by Indigenous Maori and their supporters, aims to ...

Thousands of people joined a march towards New Zealand's national capital on Friday after a contentious bill that would reinterpret the country's 184-year-old founding document passed its first hurdle ...

New Zealand’s parliament was disrupted by a haka on Nov. 14, during the reading of a controversial bill that proposes to ...

New Zealand’s parliament descended into chaos as Maori members staged a haka in protest against a bill that would ...

Members of New Zealand's parliament have rallied the international community in support of the island country's indigenous ...

Under the principles laid out in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, tribes were promised broad rights to retain their lands and ...