national Māori flag, also known as the Tino Rangatiratanga flag in reference to the concept of tino rangatiratanga, is used to represent the Māori people...

Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Chosen by an assembly of Māori chiefs at Waitangi in 1834, the flag was of a St George's Cross with another cross in the canton...

Some flags have historical or cultural (e.g. Māori culture) significance. In use sporadically as a national flag until the adoption of the current flag in...

The flag now known as the flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand (Māori: Te Whakaputanga o te rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni) or Te Kara (Māori for 'the...

widely used by Māori advocacy groups. A tino rangatiratanga flag was designed in 1989 and has become accepted as a national flag for Māori groups across...

Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia,...

over the flying of the British Union Flag at the then colonial capital, Kororareka in the Bay of Islands. The Māori King Movement (Kīngitanga) began in...

the coat of arms (which includes the current national flag), the national Māori flag, the flags of Associated States (Cook Islands and Niue), or the New...

the Māori by whom it is known as kōkōwai. In 1989, a competition was run by a group named Te Kawariki to design a national Māori flag. The chosen flag became...

of the Māori, the flag has a black strip on the left side. There is a fern green spiral which starts by taking up the entire width of the flag but decreases...

The Māori King Movement, called the Kīngitanga in Māori, is a Māori movement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand in the central...

Prime Minister and the Cabinet. Retrieved 15 January 2017. "The national Māori flag". NZHistory.govt.nz. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 25 January...

In Māori mythology the primal couple Rangi and Papa (or Ranginui and Papatūānuku) appear in a creation myth explaining the origin of the world and the...

reference to the Rangi and Papa creation story in native Māori mythology. In this way, the flag also notes New Zealand's prominence as one of the first...

Māori culture (Māori: Māoritanga) is the customs, cultural practices, and beliefs of the Māori people of New Zealand. It originated from, and is still...

flag (1971), the Assyrian flag (1971), the flag of the Romani people (1971), the Berber flag (1970s), the Sami flag (1986) or the national Māori flag...

Saudi Arabia  Te Kara, flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand  Tino Rangatiratanga ("Absolute Sovereignty"), national Māori flag (New Zealand)  Tiranga...

after being presented by the Maori Queen Dame Te Atairangikaahu in a ceremony where it also adorned some of the previous flag bearers including Harold Nelson...

Bermuda Flag of Chile Flag of Fiji Flag of Greece Flag of Liberia Flag of Malaysia Flag of Saint Helena Flag of Samoa Flag of Togo Flag of Tonga Flag of the...

diffused belief that the British flag flying on Flagstaff Hill over the town of Kororāreka signified that the Māori had become taurekareka (slaves) to...

head of state). The national flag exclusively acknowledges those of British heritage whilst ignoring New Zealand's Māori population and other ethnic groups...

South African War (1899–1902). Independence of New Zealand Flag of New Zealand List of Māori iwi New Zealand Historical Atlas. p. "Te Whenua Rangatira"...

Voivodeship, Poland  La Masó, Spain  Limousin, France  Tino rangatiratanga (Māori flag)  Minas Gerais, Brazil  Northern Territory, Australia (with ochre-red)...

Māori areas or during Māori events under the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981 in recognition of long held Māori preference for red flags...

fimbriation replaced with white. Gifford, Adam (18 August 2023). "Flag raised for Koroneihana". Waatea News: Māori Radio Station. Retrieved 29 June 2024....

unfurling silver fern frond. It is found extensively in Māori art, from carving to the official Māori flag, and is used in a stylised form as the logo for national...

flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand, and who recognised the declaration in a letter from Lord Glenelg. Aotearoa (pronounced [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa] in Māori...

Waitangi Day (Māori: Te Rā o Waitangi), the national day of New Zealand, marks the anniversary of the initial signing—on 6 February 1840—of the Treaty...

of New Zealand, adopted an official flag in 2009. Previously, the flag of New Zealand was used as the official flag for Tokelau. In May 2008, the local...

Māori people; while blue is dominant in the current national flag and symbolises the South Pacific Ocean. Kyle Lockwood's original Silver fern flag sketch...