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- Title
THE FIGHT FOR ANCESTRAL RIVERS: A STUDY OF THE MāORI AND THE LEGAL PERSONHOOD STATUS OF THE WHANGANUI RIVER AND WHETHER MAORI STRATEGIES CAN BE USED TO PRESERVE THE MENOMINEE RIVER.
- Authors
Rowe, Tia
- Abstract
In early 2017, the New Zealand government and the Māori passed a law that formally recognized the Whanganui River as a living entity that was inseparable from the Māori themselves, a concept known as Te Awa Tupua. Te Awa Tupua was given legal personhood status and the government ceded its rights to the Whanganui River to Te Awa Tupua. Comparatively, the Menominee River in the United States of America is involved in a legal battle between the Menominee Tribe, who want to protect it, and a mining company that is trying to build a mine on it. This note briefly looks at the history of the Māori and the history of the Menominee and their ties to their ancestral Rivers. Finally, this note will examine the feasibility of applying the strategies the Māori used to the struggle for protecting the Menominee River. This note concludes that the large-scale social movements and political lobbying that the Māori utilized would likely not be as successful in a U.S. framework because of political differences and the limited timeframe the Menominee are working within.
- Subjects
MENOMONEE River (Wis.); MAORI (New Zealand people); PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge)
- Publication
Michigan State International Law Review, 2019, Vol 27, Issue 3, p593
- ISSN
1085-4940
- Publication type
Article