Maori perform a welcome Dhaka for New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and officials at the Waitangi Treaty House marae ahead of Waitangi Day celebrations in Waitangi, northern New Zealand ...

Waitangi Day 2013 – On Maori Television. Wake up to Maori Television on Waitangi Day with a two-hour live breakfast show, WAITANGI ATA MARIE to keep you entertained from 8.00am until 10.00am.

A large group of Maori men in traditional attire lined the shore outside the Waitangi treaty grounds for a mass haka. (EPA Images pic) Bare-chested Maori bellowed haka chants Thursday to mark New ...

The Waitangi Day national holiday celebrates the signing of the treaty of Waitangi on February 6, 1840 by Maori chiefs and the British Crown [Fiona Goodall/Getty Images] Why is the bill so ...

A Waka, a Māori canoe, is paddled at at Waitangi, New Zealand on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, as the country begins to mark the anniversary of its founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. Credit: AP ...

Many Maori will be sympathetic to Bill English's decision not to attend the fraught Waitangi Day powhiri. It's easy to assume that debates about Waitangi Day fall along ethnic lines.

At Waitangi Day in 1990, a woman was arrested after stepping in front of Queen Elizabeth II and unfurling a protest banner asking the monarch to honour the treaty. ( AFP: Manuel Ceneta ) ...

What is Waitangi Day? The holiday commemorates the signing of New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, by representatives of the British crown and more than 40 native Maori chiefs.

By the end of September, around 540 Maori chiefs had signed the Maori version of the Treaty and Britain claimed sovereignty on May 21, 1840. However, there were some significant changes between ...

Maori perform a welcome Dhaka for New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and officials at the Waitangi Treaty House marae ahead of Waitangi Day celebrations in Waitangi, northern New Zealand ...