The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

New Zealand now offers a Digital Nomad Visa option for Americans looking to stay and work in the country—with no minimum ...

A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood by parliament ... along with 1.2 million acres of Taranaki land, following years of war between the Crown and Māori. Fishermen cast a line ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A mountain in New Zealand ... In 1865, a vast swathe of Taranaki land, including the mountain, was confiscated to punish Māori for rebeling against the Crown.

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous rights and the environment.

A mountain in New Zealand – seen as an ancestor by the country ... promised that the Maori would still have rights over their land and resources. But in 1865, sections of land, including ...

The new legislation acknowledges the profound relationship between the Māori and their ancestral land ... mountain as capable of holding rights and being the subject of legal duties. This could set a ...

The mountain, which is sacred to the indigenous Maori people, will now have its own legal identity. This means it will be ...

Māori people celebrated on Friday as Mount Taranki in New Zealand officially became a person and, with that, was renamed ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous ... which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The pristine, snow-capped dormant volcano is the ...