It fulfills an agreement of redress from the country's government to Indigenous people for harms perpetrated against the land since. The law passed Thursday gives Taranaki Maunga all the rights ...

It fulfills an agreement of redress from the country’s government to Indigenous people for harms perpetrated against the land since. The law passed Thursday gives Taranaki Maunga all the rights ...

Hundreds of Māori gathered outside New Zealand's parliament to celebrate the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill being signed into law. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is considered an ancestor by Indigenous people. The snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New Zealand’s North ...

Mount Taranaki is considered sacred and an ancestor of the local Māori people A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law ...

Taranaki is believed by the Maori people to be sacred Credit: Sanka Vidanagama/AFP/Getty Paul Goldsmith, the politician responsible for the negotiations between the government and Maori tribes ...

Aisha Campbell, who is also from a Taranaki iwi, told 1News that it was important for her to be at the event, and that the mountain "is what connects us and what binds us together as a people".

Parliament voted in favour of the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress ... communally “owned” by multiple if not 100s of people. In 1860 the Crown used military forces to complete its purchase ...

so we want to be sure that people are as equipped, supermarkets are equipped, as much as they can be. “Almost a doubling of Ngāmotu district’s population will descend on Taranaki and you’re ...