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New Zealand MPs disperse parliament with haka to protest indigenous bill

Maori MPs performed the haka, a traditional ceremonial dance, disrupting parliament on Thursday in a protest against a bill that aims to reinterpret a centuries-old document seen as a founding treaty with New Zealand’s Indigenous people. Maori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke stood up during the first reading of the Treaty of Waitangi Principles Bill and began performing the haka, joined by other opposition members. IMAGES