The Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document, takes its name from the Bay of Islands location.

A heated protest erupted in New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday as Maori lawmakers performed a haka to oppose a controversial bill aiming to redefine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. Seahawks center ...

Maori lawmakers performed a haka in New Zealand's parliament, protesting a bill aimed at changing a treaty that granted land ...

New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a ...

New Zealand's parliament engages in a heated debate over a controversial bill attempting to reinterpret the Treaty of ...

New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill ...

New Zealand’s Parliament witnessed a rare scene on Thursday when 22-year-old Te Pati Maori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, the ...

Nearly ten thousand people took to the streets in New Zealand to protest the introduction of the controversial Treaty ...

In a dramatic showdown, New Zealand's parliament saw a vote suspended and two lawmakers ejected as tensions flared over a ...

Her comments come after Prime Minister Christopher Luxon called the bill “simplistic” and “unhelpful”, and former Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson — who negotiated more settlements than ...

Maori groups begin a nine-day march for indigenous rights:: Many rally against a bill that reinterprets the Treaty of Waitangi, the country's founding agreementThe 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, signed ...

The vote was for the highly contentious Treaty Principals Bill, which seeks to reinterpret the 1840 Tiriti o Waitangi — known ...