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 ...
24 years of life lost: people placed in state care have died earlier, more violent deaths – new study
Children placed in state care from 1950 to 1999 have had significantly shorter average life expectancies than the wider ...
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A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
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 ...
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Māori will continue their work with or without Govt
Govt's approach to Waitangi 'missed opportunity' but that won't stop Māori centring Te Tiriti as they move forward The post ...
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'Part of history': Māori wardens' vital role in Waitangi events
There were protesters and you just knew that Waitangi was a time where people came to air their grievances.” It was 2012 and Smith had only been a Māori warden for five years. She was a ...
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Waitangi Day 2025: Why Māori have low home ownership rates in New Zealand - and how that can change
The people she spoke to included families trying to get into their first home, Māori who have owned homes through generations, people who have built on Māori land and iwi who are trying to move ...
The New Zealand Herald1d
Waitangi Day through the lens of a Māori warden – ‘I’m a part of history changing’
Most wardens are just everyday people called to the role by wanting to serve te iwi Māori. For many, being a warden is in their whakapapa, with whānau (family) serving before them. But Smith was ...