The settlement under which the mountain in New Zealand was approved the same legal right as the person became the law after years of negotiations.
That means Taranaki Maunga [Mt Taranaki] They will effectively own themselves, with representatives of local tribes, IWI and the Government who work together on it.
The agreement aims to compensate for Māori from the Taranaki region because of the injustices done during colonization – including a wide seizure of land.
“We need to acknowledge the injury caused by the past injustice, so we can look for the future to support Iwi to achieve our own aspirations and opportunities,” said Paul Goldsmith, a government minister responsible for negotiations.
The proposal of the Collective Law for Taranac Maunga was adopted on Thursday in the parliament of New Zealand – giving the mountain a legal name and protecting surrounding peaks and land.
It also recognizes the worldview of Māori that natural features, including mountains, ancestors and living beings.
“Today, Taranaki, our Maunga [mountain]Our maunga blunt [ancestral mountain]She is released from the shackles, the shackles of injustice, ignorance, hatred, “said Debbie Ngarewa-Patpacker, a teammate of the political party, and Pāti Māori [the Māori Party].
Ngarewa-Packer is among one of the eight Taranaci Iwi, on the western coast of New Zealand, whose mountain is Saint.
Hundreds of other māori from the area also appeared in parliament in parliament to see that the proposal of the law was becoming a law.
The mountain will no longer be officially known as Egmont – the name named him by British researcher James Cook in the 18th century – and instead was named Taranaki Maunga, while the surrounding national park will receive its name Māori.
Aisha Campbell, who is also from Taranaki Iwi, said 1news in her that it is important for her to be at that event and that the mountain is “what connects us and what binds us as a people.”
The settlement of Taranaki Maunga is the latest that he has achieved with Māori in an attempt to ensure a fee for violating the Waitania Agreement – which established a certain rights to their country and resources in New Zealand.
The settlement also came to an apology for the seizure of the Taranaki Mountain and more than one million hectares of land from the local Māori in the 1860s.
Paul Goldsmith acknowledged that “Treaty violations mean that whānaau have been inflicted on immense and complex damage [wider family]Hapū [sub-tribe] and Iwi from Taranaki, causing immense damage in many decades. ”
He added that it agreed that access to the mountain would not change and that “all the New Zealanders will be able to continue visiting and enjoying this most wonderful place for the generations of coming.”
The mountain is not the first of the natural features of New Zealand to grant legal personality.
In 2014, the domestic forest of the enclosure became the first to acquire such a status, followed by the 2017 Whanganu Rijeka.
