This year Aotearoa New Zealand is celebrating what may be the world’s first reintroduced indigenous holiday anywhere in the world, according to Dr. Rangi Matamua, an indigenous studies and Māori ...

For the first time, New Zealanders are enjoying an official public holiday this June 24 to celebrate Matariki – also known as Māori New Year. Matariki is the Māori name for a cluster of stars, also ...

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Matariki celebrates the Māori New Year and is a time for people to gather, honour the dead, celebrate the present and make plans for the future. This year, the public holiday falls on Friday 10 July.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — When Ngarauru Mako told her family she was calling off Christmas festivities in favor of celebrating Matariki, the Māori new year holiday that's experiencing a renaissance in ...

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