Sisters Umi IMAN and Khadijah Siferllah have been dancing together since they can remember. The two comprise Al Taw’am, an ...

This image from May 15, 2025 video shows New Zealand lawmaker Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke performing a Māori haka to protest a ...

New Zealand’s parliament voted to hand out record suspensions to three Indigenous Māori MPs for performing the haka to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The haka, a chanting dance of challenge, is sacred ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The haka, a chanting dance of challenge, is sacred to New Zealand’s Māori people but it’s become a beloved cultural institution among New Zealanders of all races.

Three members of the Maori Party faced suspension after performing a haka during a vote. The protest was against the Treaty Principles Bill. The bill aimed to reinterpret New Zealand’s founding ...

New Zealand MPs, including Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, face suspension after performing a haka during a vote on the Treaty Principles Bill, which sought to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi.

and the performers have been hard at work since January creating songs and dance numbers for the show. “Our program, the Dafmark Creative Arts Center, is located in public housing at the John ...

New Zealand lawmakers have moved to temporarily suspend three of their Maori colleagues who last year took the world by storm with their haka protest dance. Wellington, New Zealand - New Zealand ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Vytal Movement Dance, a local nonprofit dance company, will perform a one night only special performance at the Bing Crosby Theater on Friday, May 16. Vytal has spent the past two ...

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Aaron Smale: Te Pāti Māori can perform all the haka it likes, but this isn’t Te Matatini. Photo / NZME The Art of War by ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu has a few things to say that are ...