It's a friendly greeting heard everywhere in New Zealand, but charges of cultural appropriation have pitted Kiwis with indigenous Maori heritage against the national airline, after it sought to ...

The word Maori itself occurs frequently but Maori names for trees, fish or bird species, and cultural words, are much less commonly used. ...

Lloyd, who is of Maori descent, first started to use Te Reo words like Aotearoa — the Maori name for New Zealand — in her weather reports a couple years ago. That's when the angry emails started.

The Maori people are New Zealand’s indigenous population. New Zealand is one of the most recently inhabited parts of the globe, with the Maori arriving from the surrounding Pacific islands in ...

WELLINGTON: The removal of basic Maori phrases meaning "hello” and "New Zealand” from a Maori lunar new year invitation to an Australian official was not a snub of the Indigenous language by ...

The invitation was to an event for Matariki, the Maori lunar new year, which was established as a nationwide public holiday in 2020. It falls on June 20 next year. A spokesperson for Burke told ...