Kenny Williams began to study the Māori language during his second COVID-19 lockdown. Williams, 36, lives alone and the isolation made him yearn to feel closer to his identity as an indigenous New ...

New Zealand’s Māori culture is thriving—and travelers are invited to join in. In this week’s podcast episode of Lost Cultures: Living Legacies, we explore the rich history of New Zealand's Māori ...

“Our goal for Kupu is that it’s popularizing a selection of words from the Māori language so that 100 words is 1,000 words in a couple years.” The internet’s first code was written in English, and as ...

When Stan Walker, a New Zealand-based singer of Māori descent, first saw a rough cut of Ava DuVernay’s searing “Origin,” he’d never even heard the word caste before. But he was floored by the film, ...

The benefits of machine translation are easy to see and experience for ourselves, but those practical applications are only one part of what makes the technology valuable. Microsoft and the government ...

When the mayor of Palmerston North, New Zealand, addressed the Missoula City Council on Wednesday morning, he spoke first in the Māori language. Mayor Grant Smith, who is not Māori himself, ...

Lorde’s sunny, contemplative new album, “Solar Power,” celebrates natural wonders and the singer’s beloved New Zealand. That idea of the restorative power of nature, though, is one the album shares ...

A profound source of inspiration for the kaupapa. That’s what the organisers and supporters of this year’s Toitū Te Reo Māori language festival say was signalled by the presence of Te Arikinui Kuini ...

His experience is a marked departure from that of his parents and grandparents, who grew up at a time when the practice was ...

Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris has doubled down on his controversial social media post about race, at odds with his party's earlier apology. In the final days of the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election, ...