Spain captain Ivana Andres apologized Monday after four members of the Spanish Women’s World Cup team shared a video mocking the haka.

The haka is a ceremonial Maori war dance, with many of the country’s national teams across a variety of sports performing their own version before matches.

Away from the game, the haka has occasionally been cause for division, notably when engineering students at the University of Auckland carried out a sexualised parody of it on campus in 1979 and ...

Why was this haka controversial? November’s protest wasn’t the first time a haka has rung out in Parliament. Performances regularly follow the passage of laws important to Maori.

At their Tokyo Olympics medal ceremony, Team New Zealand performed a traditional haka dance in unison. The haka is a ceremonial dance with roots in the Maori history of New Zealand, and the ...

The New Zealand women's rugby team performed the Haka after winning their second straight gold medal Tuesday.

The sight of young men doing the haka war dance that originated with the Maori people of New Zealand has become commonplace at college and high school football games across Utah, but some Maori ...