Each year on Waitangi Day, Aotearoa pauses. Some come to celebrate, some to challenge, some to mourn, and some to reflect.

Paul Raffaele, who lives in Sydney, Australia, has written many stories for SMITHSONIAN, on subjects from child warriors in Uganda to Australian killer jellyfish. In April, he ventured to Indonesian ...

The island of Papua consists of two regions, one under Indonesian control and another functioning as an independent nation. The side under Indonesian control has been fighting for freedom for decades ...

Integrating weaving as a part of counselling is very multilayered and multi-dimensional. Each element of a korowai or a kahu huruhuru represents every area of the person, their strengths, challenges, ...