The haka in parliament was part of a protest that has galvanized the nation. According to local media, an estimated 42,000 ...

Naomi Sai Antiporta finished top of her class at her school in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand’s North Island. To ...

A recent protest in New Zealand's Parliament in which lawmakers broke into a Haka—a traditional Maori dance—has attracted ...

New Zealand's parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the ...

Watch this valedictorian honored by her classmates with a heartfelt Haka The traditional dance is sacred to the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand. It’s famous around the world as part of ...

Indigenous "Haka" chants boomed across New Zealand's capital Wellington, as tens of thousands of people rallied against a bill that critics say would alter the core of the nation's founding treaty ...

New Zealand Parliament was temporarily suspended on Nov. 14 after opposition lawmakers in the New Zealand Parliament performed the Haka in protest of a controversial bill. The bill aims to ...

New Zealand ACT Leader David Seymour says the protest haka in parliament shows a “total lack of understanding” over how democracy functions. “There are people who are not prepared to have a ...

Many see it as an attempt to strip rights from the Maori population. Booming Indigenous Maori haka chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a ...