Dutch paddler Koos Wabeke says getting involved with kaupapa waka - and learning about the Māori world - has changed his life.

Festivals like the biannual Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival in Auckland celebrate Māori culture with opportunities to sail ...

A Dutch paddler who has travelled around the world to take part in today’s Waitangi Day commemorations says getting involved with kaupapa waka – and learning about the Māori world – has ...

(Kai Schwoerer/STUFF via AP) A Waka, a Māori canoe, is paddled at at Waitangi, New Zealand on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, as the ...

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Māori have been writing about their experiences for two centuries. Here, the authors of a new book about that literary legacy ...

Mt. Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are ...

This December marked the beginning of an unforgettable three-day cultural and musical extravaganza as MC Charlene hosted the highly anticipated Waka Waka Festival at Stade Sambava, Madagascar.

This is Tent City, a camp site near Paihia for the kaihoe paddling in the Waitangi waka pageant. Kaihoe from across New Zealand come here with their families in the week prior to the country’s ...

The origins of the waka exchange between the Netherlands and New Zealand date back to 2002 when Te Papa requested the repatriation of a mokomokai - a preserved Maori head - from Museum Volkenkunde, ...

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