With its unique flora and fauna, New Zealand offers a large array of plants found only in that region, many of which became part of the Maori traditional system of medicine known as Rongoa Maori.

The Death Of Maori Medicine? For hundreds of years Maori have accessed the botanical flora of this country to use in traditional healing. Yet just as such indigenous healing is undergoing a ...

One of the first Maori lawyers, at the turn of the century he was demanding improved housing, sanitation and medicine for the Maoris.’ He carried his fight into the New Zealand House of ...

In New Zealand, thousands of indigenous Maori are protesting the new conservative government's plans to review a treaty that was signed by British colonists and Maori chiefs almost 200 years ago.