The proposed bill could redefine the country's relationship with Indigenous people Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

New Zealand’s Parliament witnessed yet another haka, a traditional Maori dance. It happened after the newest Maori Party MP, Oriini Kaipara, delivered her maiden speech. Spectators in the public ...

Parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members performed a haka — a traditional ceremonial group dance — to disrupt the vote on a controversial bill. The haka is a powerful ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The sight of young men doing the haka war dance that originated with the Maori people of New Zealand has become commonplace at college and high school football games across Utah, ...

New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- New Zealand's youngest MP Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke has once again grabbed the headlines after a video of her staging the traditional Maori dance and ripping up a copy ...

Britain's new trade deal with New Zealand includes a commitment to protect the Maori cultural tradition of the ceremonial haka dance. During a Zoom call on Wednesday evening, UK prime minister Boris ...

WELLINGTON — Members of rival New Zealand gangs gathered in unity on Wednesday to slap their thighs, thump their chests and stick out their tongues in a traditional Maori haka to commemorate the ...