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 ...

Maipi-Clarke used the opportunity to perform a haka, or war dance. She tore up a copy of the bill in front of its author, as members of Parliament (MPs) from the Maori, Green and Labour parties ...

In The Haka Party Incident, a University of Auckland drinking party is disrupted by Maori activists and the course of New Zealand history is changed forever.

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.