The haka challenge made famous by the All Blacks' rugby team was given back to the Maori tribe whose ancestor, Ngati Toa, devised it yesterday with the aim of protecting it from commercial exploitation. The New Zealand government gave the intellectual property rights of the challenge to the tribe as part of an agreement to settle grievances going back 160 years. The tribe also received $63.72 million. Renditions of the haka used in international advertising campaigns have provoked outrage amongst Maori, who claimed they undermined its cultural significance.

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