Summerhill Recreational Farm not only provides a variety of trails for hikers and bikers, and breathtaking views of the Bay of Plenty, it offers a powerful history lesson. The farm's well-preserved pa ...

The launch of Maori History in Schools was held in Rotorua and "is a defining point in our history". The launch took place at Tamatekapua, Te Papaiouru Marae, Ohinemutu on Saturday. Te Takanga o Te Wa ...

This story begins with a 160-year-old cottage, sited in a vortex of overlapping histories, and becomes the tale of a city ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Maori culture is an integral part of life in Aotearoa, or New Zealand, as it came to be known.

Reading the recently published He Whanau No Maraehara – the story of Apirana Ngata's older brother Hone, his life, the farm he broke in and lives of his descendants - gives a snapshot of one family ...

have memories of my father, a Sumatran from Lampung, who was once Indonesian ambassador to Australia, based in Canberra of all places, and simultaneously also posted to New Zealand. As one of the ...

New Zealand's government on Wednesday proposed that all children learn the history of Maori people and British colonisation in a set course that teachers must follow, ending a system where schools ...

According to Maori myths and legends, a demigod named Maui was fishing with his brothers from a canoe – which is now known as the South Island – when he hooked a giant catch: the massive piece of land ...