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

To an outside observer on Thursday, November 14, New Zealand politician Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke’s reaction on Parliament’s ...

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

Indigenous Māori 'Haka' chants resonated through Wellington, New Zealand, as part of a powerful cultural display. The traditional war dance and chants, performed by Māori groups, echoed throughout the ...

Tens of thousands of people in New Zealand gathered in front of Parliament in Wellington on Tuesday, to show dissent against a bill they said would dilute Indigenous people's rights. Chants supporting ...

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders rallied before parliament on Tuesday in one of the country's largest ever protests to oppose a bill that opponents say seeks to dilute the rights of Maori and ...

A post on X claims that the first reading of a bill during a Parliamentary session in New Zealand was cancelled after Māori ...

Indigenous Maori lawmakers disrupted New Zealand's parliament with a stirring "haka" dance, voicing opposition to a race ...

In political news outside the U.S., New Zealand Parliament was briefly suspended yesterday after Maori members performed a haka, a traditional ceremonial group dance, to disrupt the vote on a ...

The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, ...

As parliamentarians gathered for a preliminary vote on the bill, Te Pati Maori MPs stood and began a haka, a traditional ...

The touchpaper had been lit, though, and all eyes were on the Maori war dance ahead of kick-off, which started amid a deafening rendition of ‘swing low, sweet chariot’ by the crowd in Twickenham.