land grabs and cultural erasure over more than 100 years at the hands of colonial settlers. There are currently 978,246 Maori in New Zealand, constituting around 19 percent of the country’s ...

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

After European settlers arrived in Taranaki in the 1840s ... The Maori are the Indigenous people of New Zealand, while the Crown refers to the government of New Zealand, historically linked ...

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New Zealand on Thursday passed a landmark law granting Mount Taranaki the status of a legal person, in a move that recognizes its cultural significance to Māori iwi (people) as a sacred ancestor.