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New Zealand grants a mountain personhood, recognizing Taranaki Maunga as sacred to the Indigenous Māori people
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
The strange, inclusive world of mountain personhood
As told by New Zealand, rivers and forests are legitimate human ancestors. The country’s most recent conferral of personhood ...
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Ten things you might not know about Waitangi
At Waitangi, a day so ill defined by headlines breaks free of its time-bound shackles and reveals itself as a week-long ...
CNN12d
A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood. Here’s why that matters
In 1840, Māori tribes and representatives of the British crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi — New Zealand’s founding document — in which the Crown promised Māori would retain rights to ...
New Zealand grants legal personhood to Mount Taranaki
The New Zealand government has granted Mount Taranaki personhood on Thursday, giving it the same legal rights as a person ...
Protests and a New Zealand leader’s absence overshadow a day marking the founding treaty with Māori
The bill’s architect, David Seymour, met with protests at Waitangi marae — a Māori meeting house — during speeches by ...
WTOP News11d
A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
In 1840, Māori tribes and representatives of the British crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi — New Zealand’s founding document — in which the Crown promised Māori would retain rights to ...
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Māori tribes appeal to King Charles to intervene in New Zealand’s politics amid tensions over rights
Representatives from over 80 Māori tribes have appealed directly to King Charles III, urging him to intervene in New Zealand’s domestic ... adding that signatories are united in their ...