A fight for Maori rights drew 42,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington on Tuesday. A nine-day-long hikoi, or peaceful march – a tradition of the Maori – was ...

was a New Zealand soldier and the last surviving member of the 28th (Maori) Battalion (28 MB) which fought in the Second World War. The battalion was raised in 1939 and consisted entirely of ...

While the march, or hikoi, was sparked by the bill currently before parliament, organizers want the march to ignite a broader conversation about New Zealand's relationship to Maori, he said. "This is ...