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 ...

BYU women’s basketball player Kaylee Smiler is a New Zealand native, and her rich Maori culture not only enriches her life, but the lives of her teammates and many other BYU students. Smiler embodies ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Ceillhe Sperath’s ancestors arrived in New Zealand nearly two centuries before Christopher Columbus set off for the New World. Yet for much of the last two centuries, the Maori ...

Hoturoa Barclay Kerr has sailed the world on his journey to show how oceans connect peoples, lands and lifeways. Kerr, the captain of the Hainui, an oceangoing waka, or canoe arrived in Phoenix from ...

A Māori tribe in New Zealand is asking Sotheby’s London to reconsider an auction of 18th- and 19th-century artifacts currently up for sale, pushing for the treasured items, which they call taonga, to ...

TULSA, Okla. — Māori tribe members touched down in Tulsa all the way from New Zealand. Cherokee Councilman Joe Deere visited New Zealand to learn more about Māori culture and wanted to show them a bit ...

”Now we are on the list of the rich and famous,” he says, tongue firmly in cheek. “The deal is complete the red carpet is ours!” Love is a Maori leader, a “kaumatua” (respected elder) in the ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --A new Maori queen was anointed Thursday when the king of New Zealand's indigenous people who died late last month was laid to rest. A statement from the Kiingitanga, meaning the Maori ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed Nga Wai hono i te po as their new queen and eighth monarch, to succeed her father King ...

A traditional carving adorns a structure that shelters a ceremonial Maori war canoe at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in New Zealand. Maori women perform a traditional dance at the cultural center Te Po ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities ...

A Maori tribal group in Taranaki, New Zealand, is preventing Greymouth Petroleum from entering the site of a planned drilling campaign. The Otaraua Hapu, or Otaraua sub-tribe said it was contining its ...