New Zealand’s founding treaty is at a flashpoint. Why are thousands protesting for Māori rights? ...Middle East

Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Thousands of people are marching the length of New Zealand in protest of a proposed law that would redefine the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown. Under the principles laid out in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, which guide the relationship between the government and Māori, tribes were promised broad rights to retain their lands and protect their interests in return for ceding governance to the British. The bill would set concrete definitions for the treaty’s principles and specify that those rights should apply to all New Zealanders. Detractors say it would drastically reverse Indigenous rights. The p

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