New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka ...

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 ...

The legislation was brought by the small libertarian party ACT New Zealand, which said the treaty had been misinterpreted to give Māori people special treatment. Critics of the bill, which was ...

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 ...

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 WELLINGTON, New Zealand ...

A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Māori lawmakers for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber ...

is sacred to New Zealand’s Māori people but it’s become a beloved cultural institution among New Zealanders of all races. Spine-tingling performances at sports events, funerals and ...

As Māori language and culture have become part of mainstream New Zealand in recent years ... if the law was passed and tens of thousands of people marched to Parliament last November to oppose ...

New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.