James

Trigger warning: loud boys.

A video with the haka, led by the youngest MP in New Zealand's parliament, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, went viral for protesting a provocative proposal by problematic Pakeha aiming to modify the Treaty of Waitangi, the founding agreement between the British Crown and the indigenous leaders of the north island of Aotearoa. The proposal had no hope of success and was therefore simply agitation. She responded appropriately. The entire parliament had to be suspended.

Here you see a group of Maori and Pakeha boys, in their assembly at Palmerston North Boys’ High School on the 14th April 2016, living haka. They honour guidance counsellor, John Adams, who was a teacher at the school for 30 years, himself Pakeha. Please stop calling haka a war dance. It's not. It can be. It can also be this.

The fire of indigeneity has not gone out, is burning brighter, and will eclipse the world soon. Be warned.