I love that this can happen in our NZ Parliament! Watch: Haka interrupts vote for the Treaty Principles Bill | RNZ News (2.5 minutes):

A haka led by Te Pāti Māori interrupted voting for the Treaty Principles Bill this afternoon.

ACT's Treaty Principles Bill is a disgrace!

@Miraz You could see the Speaker roll his eyes when it started before he reluctantly stood up 🙄

@pratik And he carried on rolling his eyes too! Maybe next time I'll vote Te Pati Māori and Greens.

@Miraz I think that it is a shame that the cameras stayed in the Speaker and didn’t follow the Haka.

@crossingthethreshold That was my feeling too, but having watched various sessions in the past I think it must be a rule for parliamentary TV to not show such things. For example, in the past there have been celebratory moments (eg a Maiden Speech) followed by a haka or waiata (song) where the 'action' has not been shown.

@jemostrom Yes, he was very frustrated! 😁

@Miraz If it hadn’t been cultural appropriation, I’d have a Haka at our city council meetings! (Currently right-led).

@odd Hah hah. Thanks for not doing the cultural appropriation thing. Māori culture uses haka for many purposes such as protest, celebration, marking significance, and it's splendid to see this protest going on inside parliament

@Miraz Yes! And thank you for elaborating, I know very little about the Māori culture.

I wish there were more opposition to our city council. I mean, I got my man in there, but sadly he’s a Boy Scout amongst the right wing Wolves down there.

@odd Sorry to hear that about your city council. And as for Māori culture — it was so effectively suppressed for so long that even those of us who have grown up here have a great deal to learn.

@Miraz It was more or less the same for our Sápmi population.

@odd Thanks for the link. I think the story of indigenous people all over the world followed the same kind of trajectory once new populations arrived and dominated.

@Miraz I wondered if it was a rule "thing."

@odd when I went to Svalbard my guide was a young Sápmi man with a reindeer herd and all. I learned a lot about Sápmi history and present reality from him.

@restlesslens Yes, while some things may have improved, a lot of things, like the attitudes of non-Sápmi people could still improve, probably a lot. I don’t know nearly as much as I should about it.

@crossingthethreshold @Miraz @pratik here is another recording showing the real action. bsky.app/profile/j...

@Parag Good catch. Thank you.
@Miraz @pratik

@Parag @crossingthethreshold @pratik Thank you. That particular haka is called Ka mate, which has a history — the first words mean "Shall I live or shall I die" and were uttered by the important figure Te Rauparaha while hiding from pursuers. https://www.toarangatira.iwi.nz/kamate The "shall I live or shall I die" has particular significance for this moment in parliament where a bill wants to revisit (rewrite) one of our founding documents, signed in 1840 between Māori and the British crown: the Treaty of Waitangi.

@Parag Strong opposition! Thanks for adding this!

@Miraz Dunno if you saw this. This shows the haka and not that obnoxious speaker https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/113483418000047555

@pratik Thank you.