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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 ...
Mount Taranaki in New Zealand Is Legally Declared a Person
Mount Taranaki in New Zealand is legally a person, enjoying all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. The move ...
Taranaki Maunga becomes a legal person as treaty settlement passes into law
The park and its contents will be vested as a legal person, its peaks will be named Te Kāhui Tupua - so the park will ...
New Zealand's Mount Taranaki is now legally a person
Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as people under New Zealand's laws.
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Taranaki Maunga settlement a rare chance to bridge Crown-Māori gulf
There are moments of grace and unity as Parliament completes the work of generations of Taranaki Māori, to admit the ...
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A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood. Here’s why that matters
It fulfills an agreement of redress from the country’s government to Indigenous people for harms perpetrated against the land since. The law passed Thursday gives Taranaki Maunga all the rights ...
Taranaki teacher who attempted to send teenage boys sexually explicit videos avoids jail
A teacher who sent videos of himself masturbating to people he believed to be teenage boys turned himself in to the police ...
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Mount Taranaki in New Zealand Is Legally Declared a Person
Hundreds of Māori gathered outside New Zealand's parliament to celebrate the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill being signed into law. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily ...