Tane-rore is the trembling of the air as seen on the hot days of summer, and represented by the quivering of the hands in the dance. Haka is the generic name for all Maori dance. Today, haka is ...

A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

KASHIWA, Chiba Prefecture--Some 9,000 kilometers from where the traditional Maori dance originated, children from a rugby club here gave a powerful rendition of the haka, famed for its iconic ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.

Auckland engineering students performing a mock haka in the 1970s. Photo / supplied In May 1979, young Māori activists of the group He Taua confronted a bunch of Auckland University engineering ...

A heated protest broke out in New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday as Maori lawmakers performed a haka in opposition to a controversial bill seeking to redefine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.