{"id":38922,"date":"2021-11-15T12:57:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T03:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/maori-tribe-tells-anti-covid-vaccine-protesters-to-stop-using-its-haka"},"modified":"2021-11-15T12:57:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T03:57:47","slug":"maori-tribe-tells-anti-covid-vaccine-protesters-to-stop-using-its-haka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38922","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori tribe tells anti-Covid vaccine protesters to stop using its haka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tribal leaders say they have lost many ancestors to previous pandemics and see vaccine as best protection against virus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anti-vaccine protesters in New Zealand have been told to stop using the \u201cka mate\u201d haka by the tribe who have ownership of it.<\/p>\n<p>The haka, a M\u0101ori war dance made internationally famous by its performance by the All Blacks at rugby matches, is considered a cultural treasure, or taonga, in New Zealand. It was performed last week by anti-vaccination and \u201cfreedom\u201d protesters, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/09\/new-zealand-anti-vaccine-mandate-protests-police-and-photographer-attacked\">marched in their thousands to parliament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/maori-tribe-tells-anti-covid-vaccine-protesters-to-stop-using-its-haka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribal leaders say they have lost many ancestors to previous pandemics and see vaccine as best protection against virusSee all our coronavirus coverageAnti-vaccine protesters in New Zealand have been told to stop using the \u201cka mate\u201d haka by the tribe w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38922\/revisions\/38923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}