The Herald has developed an interactive version of new government maps showing New Zealand’s original tangata whenua place names for Māori Language Week. The Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New ...

Sites across New Zealand are being rechristened with names originating from Te Reo Maori, the country’s indigenous language: since 2019 more than 3,000 Maori place names have been made official.

The increasing use of Maori names for places in New Zealand has resulted in a culture war among some. One side believes itself to be engaged in a process of active, and necessary, decolonization.

As the people of New Zealand confront their nation's troubled past with colonization, a return to the Maori name of Aotearoa is being presented to a parliamentary committee.