He performed the Haka with his UA teammates before every home game, scowling and screaming in Maori during the pregame war chant. The Wildcats will take on Hawaii on Saturday night at Arizona Stadium.

The haka traces its origins to Māori cosmology. One version links it to Tāne-rore, the son of the sun god Tama-nui-te-rā and his wife Hine-raumati, the embodiment of summer. When Tāne-rore danced for ...

3 New Zealand MPs Banned From Parliament For Staging Haka Protests Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer were banished from parliament for 21 days, the longest-ever ...

The MPs did the haka in November as a protest after being asked if their party supported a Bill that sought to redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty with the Maori people. Although performed on ...

June 05, 2025 at 0:04pm BST New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from parliament for three politicians who performed a Maori haka to protest over a proposed law. Hana ...

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New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from parliament for three politicians who performed a Maori haka to protest over a proposed law. Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke received a ...

Three Māori lawmakers in New Zealand received record suspensions of up to three weeks Thursday over a protest haka they performed against a contentious bill in Parliament last year.

It is an expression of Maori identity and while sacred, it can be performed by people of any race who are educated by Maori in the words, movements and cultural protocols. Emotional haka have ...

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 ...

The haka, a traditional Maori dance of challenge, has transcended its sacred origins to become a cherished cultural symbol for all New Zealanders. From sporting events to funerals and graduations ...

Indigenous Maori politicians have decried a push to temporarily suspend them from New Zealand's parliament, after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill with a protest haka.