According to Maori myths and legends, a demigod named Maui was fishing with his brothers from a canoe – which is now known as the South Island – when he hooked a giant catch: the massive piece of land ...

The Maori of New Zealand anointed a new monarch on Thursday, officially installing 27-year-old Nga Wai Hono i te Po as their second-ever queen. The ceremony capped off a week of mourning for the ...

A council of New Zealand's indigenous Maori chiefs anointed a new queen on Thursday, as a flotilla of war canoes readied to transport her father, the late monarch, for burial on a sacred mountain. The ...

A statement released by representatives said Nga Wai Hono i te Po had been chosen by Maori elders to replace her father, King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII, who died aged 69 last week following ...

NGĀRUAWĀHIA, New Zealand — They came in their thousands in the freezing dawn, parking cars far away and winding down rural roads on foot, children riding on their shoulders. They arrived in mourning ...

DORNEY, England, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Blessed by her Maori family, New Zealand's Lisa Carrington stormed to victory in the inaugural K1 200 on Dorney Lake on Saturday to give her country its first women ...

Tribal leaders selected Nga Wai Hono i te Po as the new monarch after the death of her father last week. The second-ever Maori queen takes on the... The Maori of New Zealand anointed a new monarch on ...

This handout picture taken and released on September 5, 2024 by Kiinitanga shows new Maori queen, twenty-seven-year-old Nga Wai hono i te po Paki, attending the funeral ceremony of New Zealand's Maori ...