Anglican missionaries proclaimed the gospel to the Māori on Christmas Day in 1814. Over the years, God turned hearts massively. At the time, Māori were using muskets and cannons to fight each ...

Alcohol, in general, didn’t have a role in traditional Māori life. “We got our buzz from our gods,” says Sinnott. When settlers came, Sinnott says that inebriation became a tool for coloniz ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

A new Māori queen was crowned today as her father was laid to rest. Kiingi Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII passed away last Friday at age 69. "The death of Kiingi Tuheitia is a moment of ...