Māori Lawmakers Stage ‘Haka’ Protest in Parliament | TIME
20 hours ago · Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, right, and her colleagues from Te Pāti Māori, talk to reporters following a protest inside Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Nov. 14, 2024. Charlotte Graham ...
New Zealand Parliament Suspended as Maori Lawmakers Perform …
14 hours ago · Māori make up roughly 20 percent of New Zealand’s 5.3 million people. They experience material hardship, have worse health indicators and are incarcerated at much higher rates than the ...
Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret …
New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty with Māori people ...
New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka to protest ... - CNN
17 hours ago · REUTERS —. New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty ...
What a controversial law change in New Zealand could mean for Māori people
2 days ago · The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 between the British Crown and more than 500 Māori chiefs. It paved the way for British annexation of New Zealand while requiring the Crown to protect ...
Lawmakers stage Māori protest in New Zealand's parliament …
1 day ago · For decades after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, differences between the English and Māori texts and breaches by New Zealand governments intensified the disenfranchisement of Māori. By the middle of the 20th century, Indigenous language and culture had dwindled, much tribal land was confiscated and Māori were disadvantaged on every metric.
Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori …
19 hours ago · Ngāti Toa chief executive and rangatira Helmut Modlik told RNZ the haka was relevant to the debate. He said the bill had put Māori self-determination at risk - "ka mate, ka mate" - and Māori were reclaiming that - "ka ora, ka ora". Haka was not governed by rules or regulation, Modlik said. It could be used as a show of challenge, support or ...
New Zealand Parliament suspended after haka protest over Māori …
1 day ago · The controversial legislation, however, is seen by many Māori and their supporters as undermining the rights of the country's Indigenous people, who make up around 20 per cent of the population ...
Moment MP leads haka to disrupt New Zealand parliament - BBC
1 day ago · The bill proposes to change the way in which the Treaty of Waitangi - a 184-year-old treaty between the British Crown and Māori people - is interpreted. Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ripped ...
Retracing the footsteps of past Māori protest movements
2 days ago · As the nationwide hīkoi for Te Tiriti made its way through Auckland it stopped at two sites synonymous with Māori resistance - Bastion Point and Ihumātao. The Auckland Harbour bridge shook under the weight of an estimated 10,000 people as they made their way across two closed northbound lanes just after 9am in the morning.