They're probably the best of the Anglo settler-colonial nations (mostly due to great heroism on the part of the Maori and their allies over centuries). The language is an official language, all children are taught Maori culture (haphazardly) in schools, and the language has undergone a massive revival. The economic situation is slowly improving. Most Pakeha (White New Zealanders) would probably confess to a modest pride in the successes that have been made. Which may be somewhat unearned but is a start.

Which is to say the situation is utterly horrific and inexcusable and any of these modest gains are constantly at risk from the right wing. The ACT (formally the "Association of citizens and taxpayers" which is as fash as it sounds.) could be described as if Peter Thiel had a political party, and the centre right Nationals are only slightly more hinged than the Australian party of the same name. The treaty of Waitangi is barely a treaty and what there is is horribly unequal, but ferocious defence of it is the foundation of Maori rights.

The chuds here know what they are doing, but the problem they have is that every schoolchild has been taught to view the treaty as something good, either the centre right vision as an unambiguous union of two peoples or the centre left vision of an ambiguous bulwark against further exploitation. The NZ population is overwhelmingly against modification of the treaty and of those that are, they want a stronger treaty, not a weaker one .