Video out of New Zealand is going viral Thursday showing a parliamentary member staging a “haka” to protest a bill she and her supporters think would roll back protections for indigenous people.
And it’s…well, it’s really something.
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Proving that context matters, the haka, when performed by the New Zealand rugby team, is actually kinda cool. When performed on the floor of a Westernized government’s chamber? Not so much.
Here’s the backstory, in case you’re wondering why a well-dressed woman with crazy eyes and her buddies started hollering nonsense while holding an entire room full of her colleagues hostage with their theatrics.
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It all started about 180 years ago, when the British Crown (which had just landed in New Zealand in 1840) and more than 500 Maori chiefs (who still didn’t have a written language when the Europeans showed up in ships capable of circumnavigating the globe) signed something called the Treaty of Waitangi, a plan of co-governance between the two authorities that still exists to this day. However, there’ve apparently been recent disputes over some notable court rulings that have expanded benefits for the Maori people, which some say have resulted in discrimination against non-indigenous citizens.
In response, the center-right ACT New Zealand party had just rolled out a bill establish a new, narrower version of the Waitangi Treaty - one with which the Maori people are, obviously, unhappy. Ergo, why Te Pati Maori MPs stood up and started a haka, a ceremonial Maori dance used by the indigenous tribe for everything from war preparations to funerals and wedding celebrations.
Or, apparently, letting your fellow parliamentary members know that you disapprove of their recent legislative proposals.
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