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

its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The pristine, snow-capped ...

White House press secretary says the move is just a rescission of the memo, not the executive orders on federal funding ...

The second reaffirmed tino rangatiratanga, absolute sovereignty of Māori chiefs over their people, land and treasures. Article three promised a kind of dual citizenship for Māori, with equality ...