Maori lawmakers vehemently oppose the bill, viewing it as a direct threat to the hard-won rights of their community. By performing the haka in Parliament, they expressed their dis

New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.

The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, with even the prime minister deriding it.