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What does haka mean?

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Noun
  1. A group dance of New Zealand's Maori people featuring rhythmic chanting, vigorous facial and arm movements, and foot stamping. Traditionally a war dance, today it is also performed to welcome guests, as a mark of respect at occasions such as commemorations and funerals, as a challenge to opposing teams at sports events, and for artistic purposes.
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Our hotel, like several in Rotorua, has an evening hangi feast, complete with Maori dances and a thundering, in-your-face haka.
In the wharenui the group has been introduced to the haka, the long pois and short sticks and has had an opportunity to try them all.
She was part of the New Zealand Defence Force kapa haka that welcomed Prince Harry into Wellington last Saturday.
He was a kapa haka connoisseur who knew every kapa haka throughout the country.
Kapa haka requires the performers to sing, dance, have expression as well as movement and combine all these elements into each performed item.
The group is essentially a kapa haka or performing-arts group associated with a marae in Wellington.

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