A few years ago I was performing haka at a big corporate conference in Austin, Texas and after our performance one of the conference attendees came up to me and said “You’re the first female I have ever seen doing the haka”. It made me realize that many people, especially those living outside of Aotearoa, think haka is for men only because that’s all they have seen. Due to the All Blacks masculine image and the influence of the patriarchy on Māori culture, our traditional war dance is often asso

🌎✨️ "They said we'd never survive. We're now one million. They said our language would be extinct; Te Reo Māori was my first language. They said I'd never be in parliament—too young, too female, too Māori—and we proved them wrong." - Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ❤️🤍🖤 | Te Pāti Māori

Kid performs Haka dance with uncles

Haka Dance.

Haka Dance

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