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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 ...
The Boston Globe10d
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 ...
New York Sun9d
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 ...
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After Years Of Legal Action, A New Zealand Mountain Is Now Officially A Person
Māori people celebrated on Friday as Mount Taranki in New Zealand officially became a person and, with that, was renamed ...
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Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red in Sydney ahead of Australia Day
A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second such incident in as many years. New South Wales Police said they were ...
The New Zealand Herald9d
Taiming Zhang takes James Cook Hotel to tribunal after argument about Coke Zero v Coke No Sugar
However, the distinction apparently mattered so much to Taiming Zhang that he attempted to take James Cook Hotel to the ... if Zhang had been living in New Zealand it would have made him pay ...
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New Zealand
Russ Cook, aka Hardest Geezer, is to run the length of New Zealand on the 3,000km Te Araroa Trail. Callan Elliot grew up in Annan but is now battling for honours with newly-formed Auckland FC.