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

The controversial Treaty Principles Bill would end the Māori right of self-determination outlined in a nearly 200-year-old ...

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

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of New Zealand’s Māori party rose and began a Haka, tearing a copy of the proposed law in half.

The bill objects to certain to "ethnic quotas in public institutions," arguing protections for Māori culture defy "the ...

Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of Te Pāti Māori stood and began a rhythmic Māori chant of challenge, which swelled to a roar as ...

Opposition lawmakers performed the haka during a reading of a bill that would redefine the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.

Te Pāti Māori's extraordinary display of protest - interrupting the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill - has ...

"The National Party today are more concerned about their careers than about the history," Chris Finlayson says.

Nearly ten thousand people took to the streets in New Zealand to protest the introduction of the controversial Treaty ...

Thousands marched in New Zealand on Friday, protesting a controversial bill that seeks to reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi.