New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown.

In this instance, the allegation before the Committee is that by performing a Haka while the vote was being taken on the ...

Time is apparently running out for the three Te Pāti Māori MPs whose haka in parliament during the Treaty Principles Bill ...

A decade-old video of Beyoncé experiencing the Māori Haka dance has ignited fresh conversations about cultural exchange and ...

Te Pāti Māori is likely to find out if three of its MPs will face punishments for performing a haka in the House, in the same ...

Te Pāti Māori MPs say their haka protest during the Treaty Principles Bill debate was an expression of tikanga, not a breach ...

By Damian Flanagan One of the memorable highlights for me last year was that moment in the New Zealand parliament when a Maori MP suddenly transformed ...

The bill would govern how the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and Maori tribes, is interpreted in New Zealand law. Watch her speech here.

Te Pāti Māori MPs have again declined to turn up to a hearing over their haka protest, but this time they have lodged a ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand lawmakers dealt ... when she tore up a copy of the measures while performing a haka — a Māori chant of challenge — as she and colleagues walked towards ...