New Zealand’s Parliament was temporarily suspended on Thursday as Māori lawmakers performed a haka, a traditional group dance, demonstrating their community’s anger and fear over a bill that aims to reinterpret the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.

Clarke, New Zealand's youngest MP, performed a haka during House proceedings, opposing a bill that reinterprets a treaty between the Maori and the British.

New Zealand’s parliament descended into chaos as Maori members staged a haka in protest against a bill that would “reinterpret” the country’s founding treaty.

Clarke's powerful haka protest shook the New Zealand Parliament, sparking an intense debate over the divisive Treaty Principles Bill and issues of Maori sovereignty

Clarke, staged a dramatic protest in Parliament, leading a haka against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill

New Zealand's parliament witnessed dramatic scenes as a controversial bill proposing to redefine the country's founding treaty between Māori and the British Crown passed its first vote. The bill, facing widespread opposition and protests,

This is the moment New Zealand Maori MPs disrupt parliament with a haka to protest against a treaty bill.New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday (14 November), after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that could reinterpret an 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.