Winston Peters has been confronted at a public meeting by a woman furious by his assertion Māori are not indigenous to New Zealand.
The New Zealand First leader has previously justified that comment by saying Māori had travelled to Aotearoa from Hawaiki.
"Māori in their anthropological statement about themselves and their whakapapa, whakapapa back to Hawaiki. That is where they were indigenous to, can't be indigenous to two places."
Footage filmed by Newshub on Thursday shows the woman initially asking Peters who told him Māori were not indigenous. He answered by saying his "ancestors in Rarotonga" told him.
The woman wanted to ask another question but Peters said she had already had one, prompting her to walk forward with her finger out, yelling at Peters about Māori being indigenous to New Zealand.
"On the marae, you don't behave like that," Peters said. "You came along for the photo-op didn't you?"
The woman then walks right up to the stage Peters is speaking from.
"Go and sit down. Sit down," Peters said.
"Sit down. You are going to sit down."
The woman said Peters was "bad-mouthing our people" and then turned to the crowd.
"You Pakehas… stop being racist against the Māori… you are the racists," she said.
She was then escorted out of the room.
Watch the full video above.
