Tens of thousands of Maori protesters Mar. in New Zealand

New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka to protest Indigenous treaty bill
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.
Maori Protesters Lead March to New Zealand’s Parliament
Protesters dressed in traditional Māori attire performed hakas while marching alongside tens of thousands of people through the streets of the nation’s capital, Wellington, on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands march in New Zealand Maori rights protest
Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a conservative push to redefine the nation's founding treaty. Protests have been swelling throughout New Zealand after a minor party in the conservative coalition government drafted a bill to redefine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
Historic Māori Rights March Draws 42,000 to New Zealand's Parliament
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders confronted parliament to protest a law to redefine a treaty between the Maori and Britain.
Māori Warriors Lead Tens of Thousands in New Zealand Protest
Tens of thousands of protesters including Māori warriors in traditional dress marched on New Zealand’s parliament Tuesday in opposition to a draft law that they say would erode the rights of indigenous people.
Bill to rewrite Indigenous rights brings tens of thousands of protesters to New Zealand's parliament
By Lucy Craymer and Lewis Jackson WELLINGTON (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of New Zealanders rallied before parliament on Tuesday in one of the country's largest ever protests to oppose a bill that opponents say seeks to dilute the rights of Maori and threatens to set race relations back decades.
Tens of thousands crowd New Zealand’s Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights
As tens of thousands of marchers thronged the streets in New Zealand’s capital Wellington, the column of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest.
More than 35,000 New Zealanders rally at parliament in support of Maori rights
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders gathered outside the parliament in one of the country’s largest demonstrations to oppose the Treaty Principles Bill, which critics say undermines Maori rights and threatens race relations.
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Maori march against indigenous rights bill in one of New Zealand’s largest-ever protests
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