#Haka

[cksonjoy]

Indigenous All Stars deliver spine-tingling war dance

Indigenous All Stars deliver spine-tingling war dance

[cannotbestormed-scharfuehrer]

[coralfestmoon]

New Zealand MP performs haka in powerful maiden speech🤣😂😍🤩👇👇👇👇

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Haka dance in the town of Karditsa, Greece ❤️

[pinoypesilat]

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke

[sumarex]

[triumph-of-adaptation]

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke is the greatest

[zigcarnivorous]

YO

[prodict]

Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke

[spidermartini]

THIS.

This is the energy we need to stand up to the injustices of the Trump administration.

[thoughtportal]

a sovereign people

[0ne0nlylarry]

Have watched clips of MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke Hana-Rawhiti starting a Haka!!

“Oh Governor, Government, you are only visitors here” !!

[originalharmonysalad]

Rage Against New Zealand

[technicaldelight]

how do we log this in letterboxd?

[ladytemeraire]

Okay, I have a genuine question for anyone familiar with Maori culture, haka, and/or Aotearoa historical practice, because I've been trying to google and not getting any helpful answers.

So the video of Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke performing a haka in Aotearoa/NZ Parliament in response to a recent bill has been all over my feeds. I understand why she protested the bill, I know the historical significance of the haka and what it is, I absolutely get (and enthusiastically support!) using the haka in this situation.

My question is, when she starts chanting, multiple other MPs join in with her, both in chanting words and in doing hand/arm/physical motions. Is this particular haka something that other people would be taught? Is it like a hymn or something similar, where you would probably learn it in a cultural setting and recognize it if someone started saying the words in any other setting?

Basically, how did everyone else know the words and be able to join in once she started the haka, and how do you distinguish one haka from another?