WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A vote in New Zealand’s parliament ... attempts through policy to reverse the stark inequities Indigenous people still face. But Seymour – who is Māori — said no law or court had actually settled for good a definition ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of New Zealand’s Māori party rose and began a Haka, tearing a copy of the proposed law in half.

Under the principles laid out in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, tribes were promised broad rights to retain their lands and protect their interests.