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All Black haka

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All Black haka

New Zealand's national rugby team, the All Blacks, perform the haka, a traditional war dance. The haka performance before international games has become one of the best-known symbols of New Zealand overseas, and indicates how strongly Māori culture has been adopted by other areas of New Zealand society.

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Mark Derby, Māori–Pākehā relations – Sport and race, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28575/all-black-haka (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 22 March 2011.