Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s “We the People Amendment” directly challenges the system that allowed Elon Musk to rise from campaign megadonor to an unelected official controlling federal policy. Her proposal ...

New Zealand gave personhood to the natural features of the Te Urewera scared forest on North Island in 2014, the first country to ever do so. Guardianship of the forest was given to the Tuhoe tribe.

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is the third natural feature to be granted personhood in the country, following the Urewera Forest in 2014 and the Whanganui ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, 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 ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, 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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 ...

A New Zealand Mountain Is Granted Personhood, Recognizing It as Sacred for Māori WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was ...

FILE - A man takes a picture of his wife with Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, in the background in New Plymouth, New Zealand, Sept. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File) ...