The Associated Press on MSN11d
New Zealand grants a mountain personhood, recognizing Taranaki Maunga as sacred to the Indigenous Māori people
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
CNN11d
A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood. Here’s why that matters
But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from ...
Religion News Service8d
A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from ...
Detroit News12d
A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
Wellington, New Zealand — 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 ...
Glide Magazine9h
SONG PREMIERE: Captain’s Audio Project Dwells on That First Kiss with Dreamy and Twang-laden Folk Tune “Freak”
Captain’s Audio Project is the brainchild of veteran Portland, Oregon songwriter andmulti-instrumentalist James Cook. Here we ...
New York Sun10d
Go Tell It on the Mountain: New Zealand Grants Legal Personhood to Mount Taranaki, Recognizing It as Sacred for Māori
Yet colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer, Captain James Cook, spotted the peak from his ...
BBC12d
New Zealand mountain gets same legal rights as a person
Mount Taranaki is considered sacred and an ancestor of the local Māori people A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain ... to it by British explorer James Cook in the 18th Century ...