A proposed law that would redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people has triggered political turmoil. Here's what to know.

Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a conservative push to redefine the nation's founding treaty. Protests have been swelling throughout New Zealand after a minor party in the conservative coalition government drafted a bill to redefine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.

As tens of thousands crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest.They were marching to oppose a law that would reshape the county’s founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.

Tens of thousands of people marched on New Zealand's parliament to oppose a bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty signed between the British and Indigenous Maori.

The Treaty Principles bill argues that New Zealand should reinterpret and legally define the principles of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, a document seen as fundamental to the country’s race relations.

Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as thousands rallied against a conservative proposal accused of stoking racial divisions.

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in front of New Zealand’s parliament against proposed changes to Maori rights.

Tens of thousands of people have marched on New Zealand's parliament in a protest in support of Maori rights. The huge crowds took to the streets of Wellington in opposition to a law that could reshape the country's founding treaty between the indigenous Maori people and the British crown.