Hoturoa Barclay Kerr has sailed the world on his journey to show how oceans connect peoples, lands and lifeways. Kerr, the captain of the Hainui, an oceangoing waka, or canoe arrived in Phoenix from ...

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 ...

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 ...

BARCELONA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - New Zealand's sailors docked out to a Maori dance, rousing chants and a traditional war canoe on Saturday, shaking hands with excited supporters as they set off for an ...