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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, 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 ...

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 ...