The controversial Treaty Principles Bill would end the Māori right of self-determination outlined in a nearly 200-year-old ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of New Zealand’s Māori party rose and began a Haka, tearing a copy of the proposed law in half.

The bill calls for a reinterpretation of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti) signed between the British colonial ruler and around 500 Indigenous Māori chiefs. Over the past 184 years, the treaty ...

The Treaty of Waitangi, which is the focus of the proposed bill, dates back to 1840 and is considered New Zealand's founding ...