After the mosque attacks, the young people of Christchurch in New Zealand find solace in an old tradition: a Maori ceremonial dance called the haka. Millions around the world have watched, often moved to tears.
Students from Punchbowl Boys High School perform the New Zealand Maori tradition dance called a haka after Friday prayers at Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb Mosque in Sydney, Australia, Friday, March 22, 2019. The performance is to show support for New Zealand Muslims after 50 people were killed in attacks at Christchurch mosques last week.
To much of the world, the haka is largely associated with New Zealand’s rugby team, the All Blacks, who perform it before games. That has led to a misconception that it is solely a war dance meant to inspire fear. But though it may have started out that way, the haka has evolved to mean so much more.
“I’ve performed haka around the world, and that’s normal,” Wehi says. “I remember performing it in Germany, and I had these big German guys coming up to me with tears in their eyes, wondering why they’re crying. It’s the inner spirit that we portray.” On Monday, more than a thousand students gathered for a vigil in the park across from one of the mosques that was attacked. White and Maori, Catholic and Muslim, they stood and performed a haka that held a particularly poignant meaning: It is the haka used by Cashmere High School, which lost two students in the attack.
“It melts my heart,” 15-year-old Seraphim Tempest said after joining in Monday’s performance of the Tahu Potiki. “It’s just showing that everyone’s the same here and we accept everyone.”
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