Tens of thousands march in New Zealand Maori rights protest
Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a conservative push to redefine the nation's founding treaty. Protests have been swelling throughout New Zealand after a minor party in the conservative coalition government drafted a bill to redefine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
Tens of thousands crowd New Zealand's Parliament grounds in support of Maori rights
As tens of thousands crowded the streets in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest. They were marching to oppose a law that would reshape the county's founding treaty between Indigenous Maori and the British Crown.
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New Zealand Parliament echoes with MP’s ‘Maori Haka’! What is it, when and how it is performed – All you need to knowA video of the youngest MP of New Zealand’s Parliament, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, has been going viral on social media.
Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...
The New Zealand parliament was suspended on Thursday after Maori MPs performed the haka dance in protest of a bill.
According to NBC, a haka is a Maori dance that was "traditionally ... the act of protest "disrespectful," the Times reported. NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT/AFPTV/AFP via Getty The Treaty of Waitangi ...
A nine-day march by Maori and their supporters across New Zealand will culminate in Wellington on Tuesday at a rally where thousands are expected to protest a bill that opponents say seeks to dilute ...
The bill, introduced by the Act political party, which is part of the country's ruling coalition, argues that New Zealand ...
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