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Māori people celebrated on Friday as Mount Taranki in New Zealand officially became a person and, with that, was renamed Taranaki Maunga. Although the move to grant the mountain personhood might ...

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The recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori after New Zealand was colonized. It fulfills an agreement from the country's government to Indigenous people.

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 responsibilities of a human being.