A proposed law that would redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people has triggered political turmoil.

Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against ...

Protesters dressed in traditional Māori attire performed hakas while marching alongside tens of thousands of people through ...

A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected on Thursday when dramatic political theater ...

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On Tuesday, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of New Zealand's capital, Wellington, in what many are calling the country’s largest-ever protest in support of Maori rights.

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

New Zealand's parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a ...

A recent protest in New Zealand's Parliament in which lawmakers broke into a Haka—a traditional Maori dance—has attracted ...

Prompted by a surging Māori protest movement, for the past 50 years the courts of New Zealand, lawmakers and the Waitangi Tribunal—a permanent body set up to adjudicate treaty matters—have ...