Agriculture, Adaptation, and Altercation: Ngāti Kahungunu versus Settler Capitalism, 1845-1858

Agriculture, Adaptation, and Altercation: Ngāti Kahungunu versus Settler Capitalism, 1845-1858

This is the fifth post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series, introduced here by series editor Shannon Stunden Bower. Aotearoa New Zealand has a long and painful history of adaptation. From 1845, the British colonial Governor George Grey, alongside Native Land Commissioner Donald McLean and Anglican missionary John Morgan, unofficially enacted their “flour and sugar” policy, a strategy of protracted negotiation that aimed to fully integrat…