Tourists visiting Nelson Lakes National Park in New Zealand are now required to clean their shoes before entering Lake ...

Maori co-captain Kennedy Cherrington says the NRL All Stars match will allow her team to show their culture won't back down ...

Having stunned Penrith by returning to New Zealand, James Fisher-Harris says representing the Maori All Stars trumps the ...

It appears to involve the merging of Maori tribal customs which were extant in New Zealand in 1840 with the Common Law which came to us when most of the tribes ceded sovereignty over New Zealand to ...

As told by New Zealand, rivers and forests are legitimate human ancestors. The country’s most recent conferral of personhood ...

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 responsibilities of a human being.

A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, after a law recognising injustices done to the Maori people during colonisation was passed unopposed in parliament.

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognised as a legal person on ...

But a Māori protest movement of the 1970s and '80s has led to a surge of recognition for the Māori language, culture and rights in New Zealand law. Redress has included billions of dollars in ...