The New Zealand Journal

Maori haka, circa 1910, real photo postcard I'm baaaaaaaaaaack, for now. And the tangata whenua are up in arms about it. In fact, they...

  Children participating in Toothbrush Drill, Te Kaha Maori School, Opotiki, circa 1944. Photo: Pascoe The school that brushes its teeth to...

Maori Dental Hygiene poster, NZ Department of Health, circa 1950s Okay, everyone, circular motions, front and back, and all the way to the ...

Haere Mai! Maori theme travel poster from the 1920s Now if we all got off the grid and used geothermal cooking we might  be able to keep t...

Wonderland of the Pacific, Travel poster, circa 1930s Then there is the exploitation of Maoritanga and womanhood in the travel poster. More...

Group on Winiata railway station, near Taihape, circa 1910. Unidentified photographer.  Alexander Turnbull Library   Maori Farm at Wini...

Analogous to beating a dead horse... Rather than bury my response to some comments in the comments section of the post on Getting A Taste Fo...

The official New Zealand flag Introduced in 1869, adopted as the official flag in 1902. British blue ensign with a stylised Southern Cross r...

Instructional video from TalkMaori, via YouTube, on learning to count in Maori: Tahi, rua, toru..

A tapu-lifting ceremony has been performed at the site where Good Samaritan Austin Hemmings, 44, was murdered on his way home from work. Mr ...

The Maori Party has released its Treaty of Waitangi policy which includes a policy to entrench in law the Maori seats in parliament. This wo...

Cave Rock - Tuawera, Sumner, circa 1905 - on signal day? Click on images for larger view. An elevated view looking east of Sumner Beach, Cav...

The New Zealand Parliament passed the Central North Island Forests Land Collective Settlement Act on 25 September that provides the largest...

One of the developments that can occur when an indigenous people's language is lost over time and a foreign language is adopted by the i...

Anne Salmond's three books - Two Worlds , Between Worlds , and The Trial of the Cannibal Dog - are sophisticated, nuanced accounts of f...

Emile Rouargue’s fanciful illustration of Maori cannibalism, an illustration in a volume on French explorer Dumont D’Urville’s expedition ...

If the first humans arrived in Aoteroa-New Zealand around 1280 – 1300 AD, how many of them were there and where did they come from? On...