A Ngapuhi leader is calling for a nine per cent economic development tax to be levied on everyone living inside the iwi's boundary.

As the Waitangi Tribunal prepares to issues its recommendations on the most far-reaching claim yet, an improved ability to talk through our different viewpoints will be critical.

Northland Maori want a special economic development tax as part of their Treaty settlement.

Maori will refuse to forgo their rights to the foreshore and seabed unless private owners do the same, an iwi leaders' group has warned.

A leading Maori journalist is threatening to walk away from TVNZ if proposals to revamp the Maori-focused current affairs show Marae go ahead, insiders say.

Merata Mita, a co-producer of the hit NZ film Boy and a recipient of the NZ Order of Merit, has died in Auckland today.

The Department of Internal Affairs has apologised to a mother after it admitted failing to uphold the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in dealing with her.

"At the drop of a hat and for the clinking of some dollars, we'll turn on a powhiri for Mickey and Minnie," complains Labour MP Shane Jones.

Tuhoe are holding emergency hui to discuss John Key's announcement that iwi ownership of the Urewera National Park is off the negotiating table.

The 2007 'anti-terror raids' reaffirmed old suspicions and helped quicken the enthusiasm for a "Tuhoe Nation", writes historian Paul Moon.

Tuhoe representatives believe they had Cabinet numbers to secure ownership of Te Urewera National Park but say a nervous prime minister acting unilaterally stood in the way.

A large North Island iwi has adopted a bold strategy that will lead to a ban on bringing tobacco to events it controls.

Samantha Harris's mother was one of the "Stolen Generations", removed from her parents because she was black.

Titewhai Harawira questioned the Waitangi Tribunal’s right to assess her iwi’s claims when the tribunal opened its hearing this morning.