Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a member of Te Pāti Māori, or the Māori Party, broke out into a powerful haka on the floor of New Zealand’s Parliament, disrupting a vote on a controversial piece ...

Last year, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke led a haka in New Zealand Parliament. Now, the participating MPs have received a big punishment.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a member of Parliament, led a ceremonial performance of Māori culture, tearing up a controversial bill as other lawmakers joined her in protest.

New Zealand's parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a haka, a traditional Maori dance, disrupting the reading of a ...

New Zealand lawmakers, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, center at second row, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, center in front row, and Rawiri Waititi, bottom right, who received lengthy suspensions from ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, right, speaks to reporters following her haka protest inside New Zealand's Parliament in November [File: Charlotte Graham-McLay/AP] ...

Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke is one of the lawmakers who have been temporarily banished from New Zealand’s parliament. (AP pic) Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to ...

The New Zealand government on Tuesday deferred a vote over the rare suspension of three Indigenous lawmakers from parliament for performing a haka, the Maori ceremonial dance, during the reading ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, 22, became a global viral sensation after she erupted into a passionate haka in New Zealand's Parliament in protest of a new bill.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke made international headlines for protesting efforts to change New Zealand’s founding document. Now the Treaty Principles Bill is dead, but her work is not done.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a member of Te Pāti Māori, or the Māori Party, broke out into a powerful haka on the floor of New Zealand’s Parliament, disrupting a vote on a controversial piece of ...