Maori MPs suspended over haka Their performance, staged in November, was in protest of a controversial bill that would have reinterpreted a treaty protecting the indigenous Maori people. Opponents ...

Soila Hill, a dancer from Sturgeon Lake, Alta., said the Kamloopa Powwow features some of the best singing, dancing and ...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor. Maori Party co ...

National MP and Maori-Crown relations minister Tama Potaka called it a “cremation day” for the bill. “It’s dead, it’s gone and it will be buried,” he told Radio New Zealand.