Sitting on a carved wooden throne, the new monarch was announced at a gathering at Tūrangawaewae Marae, the seat of the Kiingitanga or "Māori king movement". The movement arose in the 1800s as a ...
Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, the Maori king, was one of a number of indigenous ... The document proposes that whales' "freedom of movement, cultural expression - which includes language ...
The Kiingitanga, or Maori King movement, was founded in 1858 with the aim of uniting New Zealand’s tribes under a single sovereign in the face of British colonisation. The Maori monarch is a ...