The suspended lawmakers from the Māori Party performed the haka, a dance of challenge, last November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights.
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42,000 crowd New Zealand’s Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights
Protesters oppose a measure that would reshape the county’s founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.
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New Zealand’s leader apologizes to survivors of abuse in state and church care
An estimated 200,000 people, many of them Indigenous Māori, suffered abuse in New Zealand’s foster and faith-based care over a period of seven decades
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A 27-year-old just became queen of New Zealand’s Maori
Tribal leaders selected Nga Wai Hono i te Po as the new monarch after the death of her father last week. The second-ever Maori queen takes on the largely ceremonial role at a complicated moment.
