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

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 Treaty of Waitangi, which is the focus of the proposed bill, dates back to 1840 and is considered New Zealand's founding ...

Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...

In an extraordinary display of unity and defiance, Maori MPs and spectators erupted into a powerful haka in New Zealand's ...

A heated protest erupted in New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday as Maori lawmakers performed a haka to oppose a controversial bill aiming to redefine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. Seahawks center ...

which is a war cry written in 1820 by a Maori chief Te Rauparaha. It was first performed by the All Blacks in 1888, but only at away matches until 1986. The Ka Mate Haka is also performed during ...

New Zealand captain Scott Barrett has warned England that Joe Marler has “loaded the gun” through his inflammatory comments on the Haka ... call for the pre-match Maori war dance to be ...

England rugby union star Joe Marler has walked back on his controversial comments about the haka - after receiving "an education" on the matter. "It's ridiculous," he initially wrote. "It's only ...

England prop Joe Marler has apologised after he called for the Haka to be scrapped ... Marler’s comments on the Maori war dance drew a furious backlash in New Zealand, while Robertson reacted ...

You knew we would end up discussing the haka at some point during this week – Joe Marler just decided to get the conversation started a little earlier with a verbal “grenade”, as Kevin Sinfield put it ...

Haka are ritual war dances that form a significant part of indigenous Maori culture, and for decades have been closely associated with the All Blacks, one of rugby union's leading international teams.