
The Associated Press @AP
Before Tahi Nepia paddles his outrigger canoe — called a waka ama in his Indigenous Māori language — out onto New Zealand’s Whanganui River, he asks permission from his ancestors in a prayer. Nepia is among many who see the river as part of them. https://t.co/oBNDoSsSwJ https://t.co/VMkKmHe5I9 — PolitiTweet.org