No
Never
No rugby team in New Zealand does this
They know better
Highland
Please stop this practice!
Why?
Because this is a desecration and great disrespect for the Haka to be used in this manner. To use it as a way of getting in peoples faces, taunting, rubbing it in, we are the beeeest.........! It insults this great tradition.Never
No rugby team in New Zealand does this
They know better
Highland
Please stop this practice!
Why?
Make up your own Highland jig and jig at it all game long, but leave the Haka alone.
Highland continues to clearly demonstrate their ignorance to matters of Maori history and the sacred and special place that the Haka has in the Maori culture.
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It really doesn't matter what anyone says, does it? If Gelwix were to say the sun is shining, you would say it's dark. If he were to get in an auto accident, you would criticize him for not bleeding fast enough! You are not interested in fairness, but only pushing your personal hate filled agenda.
With respect to the haka, it is not uncommon for sideline players and fans to participate in a haka during a match. For example, the traditional match that was played between Church College of NZ and St. Stephens saw students from both schools ring the field and haka through out the 70-minute match.
You don't own the haka, neither does Highland or any team. Nor is it fair that you have are the self-appointed guardian of it. You don't know anything about Highland or why they have included a haka as part of the 30+ year tradition. You are so selective in your moral outrage, but that is typical of people like you. Have you criticized your brothers who coach United for their haka? Or, have you complained to the school administrations at Hunter, Granger, Highland, West, East, and a host of other Utah high schools about their haka before football games? Of course, you have called Pres. Samuelson at BYU and complained about the BYU football team's pre-game haka. In fact, please direct me to your BYU-football hate blog so I can complain too! And we haven't even talked about BYU's rugby team that does a haka, have we? No, you have singled out Highland's rugby team, and singled them out unfairly (but with great righteous indignation) to be the object of your scorn. If you wish to object to anyone in America doing a haka, fine; but at least be fair and consistent and object to everyone, including your brothers' team, United. You are such a hypocrite.
No because BYU does it with the appropriate respect that the Haka deserves. Big difference between Larry Gilwix and Buck Mendenhall. HR does it with the pretend students from New Zealand.
Once again you have to bring up the kiwi's. Is everything highland does attributed to them? Pretty sure its not. And Speaking of the Haka Highland does it to encourage there team and let them know there brothers are on the side for them but of course you would never consider this because its the truth and might make highland look good oh no
It really has little to do with whether the Highland High Rugby team, BYU or any other team in America does the Haka. The fact is it is a cultural thing for New Zealand, written by the chief of the Ngati Toa tribe in the 1820's. Are Maori's natives of America? No, they are not. They are natives of New Zealand.
If an American rugby team wants to have some type of war dance to encourage the spirit of the team, fine, but find their own. Don't steal one from another culture that has NOTHING to do with them.
If Americans find it necessary to steal things from other countries and cultures, and screw it up - stick to television programs, like the Australians Kath and Kim. But leave things of culture, ancestry and whanau (look it up - if you're a kiwi you know what it means) alone.
The haka war dance made famous by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team was officially handed back to a Maori tribe yesterday to stop it being ripped off by Hollywood directors and international advertising campaigns.
The New Zealand government assigned intellectual property rights in the traditional Maori haka, the Ka Mate, to Ngati Toa, a North Island tribal group.
I think it was probably mentioned, but could someone post the Haka from forever strong in Maori and the translation in English?
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