Rukai vs. Maori Haka Challenge

Produced by Indigenous Bridges/ATAYAL organization.
The Haka, a traditional ceremonial dance of the Maori people is always fascinating to watch. When two tribes from thousands of miles apart face off and challenge each other with a haka dance, it is something unforgettable.
On December 11, 2013, during our Taproot Cultural Exchange Program, the unscripted event occurred in the lobby of the National Museum of Prehistory in Taitung, Taiwan. A group from the Rukai Tribe in Taromak Village completed several cultural dance performances. At the conclusion of their performances, they surprised everyone with a rendition of the Haka dance, to honor their Maori guests from AUT in New Zealand.
The Maori visitors were moved, and decided to respond in kind with their own Haka performance. Watching the two tribes perform the Haka as a traditional, respectful challenge to each other drove the audience into a frenzy of appreciation.

[@taiwansivispacemparabellum9546]

Distant cousins reuniting cross the ocean of time, can’t get more austronesian than this.

[@ianpaulogonzaga4308]

Relatives separated by hundreds of years and a vast ocean come together to rekindle this familial bond. As a Filipino who share the same Austronesian roots, I feel honored and grateful to see our heritage is very much alive.

[@datulabang]

@@bihapi what are Filipino then? Hispanic? Like Mexican?

[@datulabang]

@@bihapi there are thousand of tribes of Native American with different cultures & languages. Lakota is way very different from Nahuatl in the south, which tribe does Filipino related to?

[@datulabang]

are you serious? i dare you to say this to Native American people, Filipino are not asian but native american

[@datulabang]

@@bihapi differences between amazonian and aztec are like Nordic and French, decide it first you want to become Aztec or Amazon.

[@ianpaulogonzaga4308]

@@bihapi If we follow the current strong theory, Filipinos come from Taiwan. This is the austronesian theroy. Ancient austronesians populated much of southeast asia, polynesia, micronesia, and a small part of south america. We are not the same though as aztecs, or other native american peoples, unless they moved north at around 7000 BC.

[@pestanah]

kind felt like homecoming

[@startreker8591]

They are very similar sounding screams y moves y souls …a revelation indeed…

[@ryoxindo4458]

Incredible

[@zealandia5668]

This is a legendary performance.

[@MrSicc274]

Kia Ora my cousins! Aroha

[@HistoriaMundi98]

Take a look into Nias culture in Indonesia, they have a very similar war dance (although with spear and shield) called tari fataele or tari baluse

[@jeksixten5751]

The Yami tribe have original haka

[@honahwikeepa2115]

Our oldest grandchild is Phillipine/Maori. He's our Cheif.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

This is pretty cool.

[@NMSLCinaBabi]

台灣原住民與紐西蘭毛利人萬世友好！

[@kasikasivendjinn5345]

TW 🤝 NZ

[@diannavaratri1054]

Wow ,I'm speechless

[@jamzlds04]

che'lega our whanaunga, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.

[@petemarquez8393]

Brothers separated God Bless them

[@armheaven]

吐舌頭也太可愛了

[@LingkunganSekitarKu]

RUKAI IS TAIWAN RIGHT?

[@kearenneraek5191]

Yes

[@danielezekielsmith674]

Maori are Hebrew Jews Israelites that went to Taiwan from Aoteroa we didn't come from Taiwan, we came from Israel.

[@harore4078]

We didn't come from New Zealand either we went there and claimed it from the Mori ori people if I spelt it correctly lol hawaiki is where we came from apparently

[@danielezekielsmith674]

@@harore4078 Mori Ori is a made up name. They're half cast Greek Israeli Maori descendants that were scouts that didn't return and tell the chief like all the other scouts that found land Maui spoke of and before we got to Hawaii after it was scouted out we were in Rapa Nui and before that Chile all the way up the main land all the way back over the ocean coming from Israel.

[@flamealchemy7964]

Can you prove Māori are Israelites? Pa Keha scientist seem to ignore Māori ancestral claims. How can they successfully suppress this? The Spartans, Gorgons, Etruscans all the names you can think of makes it’s burial more than cryptic.

[@flamealchemy7964]

Rocker Jaw research indicates we have our own distinct ancestor whom is not negroid, mongoloid nor caucasoid and out of Africa doesn’t apply to us any more than it does for the trees nor any seed. Also A Sargon of Mesopotamia interestingly destroyed the Mari and Arawa then wrote them out of history including destruction of their existence itself and that is upheld till this day sir. Media was originally sandskrit Madai/Marae.

[@Rotavegas1]

@@danielezekielsmith674 😂😂😂😂😂