The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

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 second reaffirmed tino rangatiratanga, absolute sovereignty of Māori chiefs over their people, land and treasures. Article three promised a kind of dual citizenship for Māori, with equality ...