Taranaki Maunga is an honored ancestor to the Maori, something the New Zealand government has cemented with this designation.

Mt. Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are ...

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

However, the majority of Maori who want to build homes on ancestral lands are individual or collective whanau who don’t have ...