The harsh penalty was handed down to three members of the opposition who said they were voicing their community’s displeasure with proposed legislation.

New Zealand's parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged ...

In New Zealand’s North and South Islands, each Māori tribe (iwi) has its own history, founding ancestor or ancestress, tribal ...

Keeping people off ... from Taranaki iwi travelling on the maunga trails. The ope were building several whare hopuni (huts) to shelter from the storm. When Maori discovered that Davy and ...

Taranaki Maunga, known by New Zealand's non-Maori population as Mount Taranaki, has been recognized by the ... The mountain is considered to be an honored ancestor by the Maori people. But during the ...

Mount Taranaki has been ... the mountain’s theft from the Maori of the Taranaki region during the colonisation of New Zealand, and fulfils an agreement of reparation from the country’s government to ...

The mountain is now recognised as a ‘living and indivisible whole’. A New Zealand mountain has been legally recognised as a person by the government. Mount Taranaki has been legally granted ...

A mountain in New Zealand – seen as an ancestor by the country’s indigenous Maori people – is now ... The recognition of Mount Taranaki’s personhood comes after thousands marched in ...

Harms not only against the Maori people are significant ... The problem is not so much that people will start treating Mount Taranaki as an actual human. I am sure no one expects as much.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized ... of a human being. Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its ...

Mount Taranaki, now known by its Maori name Taranaki ... Let us find out. The Indigenous Maori people of New Zealand respect the snow-covered Taranaki Maunga as a sacred ancestor, reported BBC.

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural ... which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The pristine, snow ...