The New Zealand parliament was suspended on Thursday after Maori MPs performed the haka dance in protest of a bill.

Opposition lawmakers performed the haka during a reading of a bill that would redefine the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.

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.

Clarke, 22, performed Māori tribe’s traditional war dance called Haka in the New Zealand Parliament over a controversial bill ...

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New Zealand’s youngest MP Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke has caught limelight for a dramatic protest at the Parliament.

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

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

Māori lawmakers performed a traditional haka dance to protest a New Zealand bill that could redefine the country's ...

Te Pāti Māori’s extraordinary display of protest — interrupting the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill — has highlighted the tension in Aotearoa New Zealand between Māori tikanga, or customs, ...