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 ...

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

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 ...

The Maori language of New Zealand has just expanded by 200 words and phrases, freshly minted to describe mental health, addiction and disability issues. Keri Opai, the civil servant who helped ...