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Tauranga Moana haka group represent Aotearoa in Samoa
19 Feb 2025It was the first time most of the group had been to another country.
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Mihi's Place the place to be during Matatini
17 Feb 2025New Zealand's only Māori-owned airport business - and its mirimiri clinic - has brought in extra hands to prepare for the Matatini mayhem.
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Watch: Meet Bosco, the surfing dog spreading aroha
21 Feb 2025Watch: Balancing on his surfboard, the kurī became a joyful show of support.
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Behind the Banner: Inside the hīkoi mō te Tiriti
23 Nov 2024Over nine days, rangatahi and veterans of past hīkoi walked shoulder-to-shoulder to take their message to Parliament. Ella Stewart and Cole Eastham-Farrelly were there.
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What you need to know about Te Matatini 2025
17 Feb 2025The national kapa haka competition returns on 25 February, hosted this year in Ngāmotu/New Plymouth.
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'I feel for my peers': Māori businesses perform strongly despite economic hardship
16 Feb 2025A report shows Māori tourism contributed $1.2b to the NZ economy in 2023.
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Te Matatini: Members, Taranaki iwi meet to bless mahau ahead of festival
12 Feb 2025Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga kicks off in two weeks and will pull together Aotearoa's finest haka rōpu for the week-long festival.
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Fake rūnanga photo draws the ire of Ngāpuhi chairperson
11 Feb 2025The post, which was taken from X and shared on Facebook, features an artificial image of a Māori man with a facial moko standing in front of a red ute and a visible rūnanga logo.
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Whangārei hāpu set to go back to court to battle housing development on sacred site
A Whangārei based hāpu are going back to court for the latest in a legal saga spanning 30 years. Audio
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Moriori ancestors returned to Aotearoa
16 Feb 2025Two repatriations earlier this week marked a signifcant milestone for the Moriori community, and was marked with a special pōwhiri and ceremony at Te Papa.
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Labour critical of $270k staff cost over Treaty Principles Bill hearings
14 Feb 2025However, the minister behind the bill defends it as the "best possible use of Parliament's funding".
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Former National minister says Treaty bill 'irretrievably flawed'
13 Feb 2025Hekia Parata has told a select committee the bill is "unnecessary" and a waste of resources and tolerance.
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Treaty bill's promise of 'equal rights' ignores democracy's blind spots
31 Jan 2025This rhetorical and ideological vagueness obscures a pivotal point: there is no such thing as a singular form of democracy, writes Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll.
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Aotearoa music legend Toni Huata dies
10 Feb 2025Huata was a champion of Māori music and te reo, and released much of her music in her mother tongue.
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Development to bring stories of historic pā site to life
"The story of Pukerangiora will now be heard from our Pukerangiora uri," hapū chairperson Nardia Lichtwark said.
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Māoriland Film Festival to showcase more than 100 films from 86 Indigenous nations
12 Feb 2025The te reo Māori version of Dreamworks classic animation Shrek will premiere among the 86 films screening at Māoriland Film Festival.
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Backlash after false claim warriors at Waitangi had ankle monitors
11 Feb 2025A photo shared on social media claiming to be from Waitangi Day celebrations was taken at a different event last year, a tourism operator says.
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Iwi loses High Court challenge against beach vehicle bylaw
11 Feb 2025A Marlborough iwi has been unsuccessful in its challenge of a council bylaw restricting vehicle access on the east coast.
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Labour open to Parliamentary Commissioner for Te Tiriti
11 Feb 2025Two potential coalition partners, Labour and Te Pāti Māori, are "pretty much in the same camp" around protecting Te Tiriti.
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'Bringing the Parihaka love' with two tonnes of potatoes for Te Matatini
Taranaki iwi harvested two tonnes of potatoes to koha groups staying at local marae for the national kapa haka festival at the end of the month.
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More Māori nurses urgently needed - NSO kaiwhakahaere
7 Feb 2025Kerri Nuku also called for the embracing of tikanga to make Māori patients and nurses more comfortable.
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Tangi for Dame Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi urges strength in unity
7 Feb 2025Dame Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi, a founder and champion of the kōhanga reo movement, is to be laid to rest this morning at Rāhui marae in Tikitiki near East Cape.
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Wrapping up Waitangi with record waka turn-out
6 Feb 2025From the dawn ceremony to the numerous local performances and powerful words, Waitangi Day 2025 was one to remember, but a highlight would have to be the record turn-out of waka.
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West Auckland fills up Parrs Park for Waitangi celebration
6 Feb 2025Thousands of people gathered at Parrs Park in West Auckland to celebrate Waitangi Day.
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