Ned Tapa has spent his life along New Zealand’s Whanganui River. For Tapa, a Māori leader, the river is not a resource to be managed or a commodity to be owned. It is an ancestor. A living being. A life force.  That worldview—captured in the Māori phrase “I am the river, and the river is … Continue reading ‘I Am the River’: How Indigenous Knowledge Reshaped New Zealand’s Law