WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.

Three Māori lawmakers in New Zealand received record suspensions of up to three weeks Thursday over a protest haka they performed against a contentious bill in Parliament last year.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The haka, a chanting dance of challenge, is sacred to New Zealand’s Māori people but it’s become a beloved cultural institution among New Zealanders of all races.

transcript. New Zealand Parliament Suspends Lawmakers for Haka Dance Protest Co-leaders of the Te Pāti Māori party, Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, were suspended on Thursday without ...

New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a ...

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Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand's parliament, after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill with a protest haka. The ...

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The haka, a chanting dance of challenge, is sacred to New Zealand’s Māori people but it’s become a beloved cultural institution among New Zealanders of all races.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke made international headlines for protesting efforts to change New Zealand’s founding document. Now the Treaty Principles Bill is dead, but her work is not done.