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Indigenous Ancestors

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doi:10.1017/9781108555791.015
Authors
Jacinta Ruru
Reported year
2021
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en
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Documentary abstract — original language

On the world stage there is now a suite of laws that aspire to recognize Indigenous peoples’ cultural environmental management philosophies and practices. Of international acclaim, on July 27, 2014, Te Urewera, a large forested national park in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, became simply: Te Urewera “a legal entity” with “all the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person.” 1 Three years later, on March 20, 2017, Aotearoa New Zealand enacted legislation giving legal personality to the country’s third longest river, the Whanganui River. 2 In December 2017, it was announced that law will be enacted in the near future to recognize Mount Taranaki as a legal person “effectively giving the mountain the same protections as a citizen.” 3 Legal personality of this land, river, and mountain mark a significant positive transformation for Aotearoa New Zealand’s environmental and constitutional laws. These laws provide a connective example of how western colonial law can positively forge a bridge to Indigenous laws. These resolutions are groundbreaking political solutions to constructively accept at a national level Māori Indigenous laws for knowing, caring for, and using lands and waters.

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W3148428757
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10.1017/9781108555791.015

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Jacinta Ruru. Indigenous Ancestors. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555791.015

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Jacinta Ruru. (2021). Indigenous Ancestors. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555791.015
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Jacinta Ruru. Indigenous Ancestors. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555791.015
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Jacinta Ruru. Indigenous Ancestors. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555791.015

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