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    The group of people performing a haka is referred to as a kapa haka (kapa meaning group or team, and also rank or row). [14] The Māori word haka has cognates in other Polynesian languages, for example: Samoan saʻa (), Tokelauan haka, Rarotongan ʻaka, Hawaiian haʻa, Marquesan haka, meaning 'to be short-legged' or 'dance'; all from Proto-Polynesian saka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian sakaŋ ...

  3. Haka performed by non-New Zealand sports teams - Wikipedia

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    The Kahuku High School "Red Raiders" football team may have been the first American sports team to regularly perform a haka, doing so since 2001. [4] [5] The town of Kahuku is located just north of Laie, Hawaii, the home of Brigham Young University-Hawaii, which has many international students, including Polynesians from throughout the South Pacific, and both the student body and local ...

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    The All Blacks perform the Maori ceremonial dance before ... What do the words to New Zealand’s haka mean in English? ... Jay-Z accused in a lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 with ...

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    The All Blacks perform the Maori ceremonial dance before their fixtures

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  7. Kapa haka - Wikipedia

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    There is a regular national kapa haka competition currently called Te Matatini that has been running since 1972. [1] A kapa haka performance involves choral singing, dance and movements associated with the hand-to-hand combat practised by Māori in mainly precolonial times, presented in a synchronisation of action, timing, posture, footwork and ...

  8. Ka Mate - Wikipedia

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    Te Rauparaha composed "Ka Mate" circa 1820 as a celebration of life over death after his lucky escape from pursuing Ngāti Maniapoto and Waikato enemies. [1] [2] He had hidden from them, on Motuopihi Island in Lake Rotoaira, in a kūmara storage pit while a woman (wāhine) by the name of Rangikoaea straddled the pit to hide and protect him. [3]

  9. Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret ...

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    Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret founding treaty. Kathryn Armstrong - BBC News. November 14, 2024 at 6:17 PM. New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt ...