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.

In reality, the British pillaged Māori lands throughout the 19th century and nearly eliminated them through displacement, disease, and warfare.

On February 6, 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi, also called Te Tiriti o Waitangi or just Te Tiriti, was signed between the British Crown and around 500 Maori chiefs, or rangatira.

Decapitated, dried, and tattooed Maori heads are on display at various European museums, including the British Museum. The Maori used chisels to carve into men's skin, then filled the grooves with ...

The 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori lays out how the two parties agreed to govern, promising the Maori rights to their lands and giving other protections in exchange ...

A Maori reacts outside New Zealand’s parliament to protest against a proposed law that would redefine the country's founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown in ...

New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the ...

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, a Maori politician in New Zealand, sees her attire as a way to reclaim the era when her ancestors first interacted with British colonizers in the early 1800s.