A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.

The mountain is the third natural feature in New Zealand to be conferred personhood. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

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The measures are widely derided and prompted tens of thousands of people to march on Parliament in Wellington last November.

A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

Let us find out. The Indigenous Maori people of New Zealand respect the snow-covered Taranaki Maunga as a sacred ancestor, reported BBC. According to the Maori tribe, humans, animals, mountains ...

The mountain’s induction is one settlement among decades’ worth of settlements between the Maori tribe and the New Zealand government. That is the thing: Personhood of “sacred land” comes ...

Thousands gathered across New Zealand on Thursday to celebrate the signing of the country’s founding document and some called ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.