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

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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 ...

(Kai Schwoerer/STUFF via AP) A Waka, a Māori canoe, is paddled at at Waitangi, New Zealand on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, as the ...

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 ...

New Zealand turned 185 on Thursday. Tensions are running high on the eve of the country's national day, commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Maori and the Crown in 1840. On ...

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

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.