'Our Old Friends and Recent Foes': James Cowan, Rudall Hayward and Memories of Natural Affections in the New Zealand Wars

Cooper, Annabel

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'Our Old Friends and Recent Foes': James Cowan, Rudall Hayward and Memories of Natural Affections in the New Zealand Wars

Cooper, Annabel

Cite this item: Cooper, A. (2013). ‘Our Old Friends and Recent Foes’: James Cowan, Rudall Hayward and Memories of Natural Affections in the New Zealand Wars. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 14, 152–170.

Permanent link to OUR Archive version: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6554

Date: 2013

Publisher: Victoria University of Wellington

Pages: 152-170

Rights Statement: The Journal of New Zealand Studies retains the copyright of material published in the journal, but permission to reproduce articles free of charge on other open access sites will not normally be withheld. Any such reproduction must be accompanied by an acknowledgement of initial publication in the Journal of New Zealand Studies.

Keywords: New Zealand; New Zealand history; memory; interracial; intimacy; colonialism

Research Type: Journal Article

Languages: English

Abstract:

When the first Taranaki War ended in 1861, a young settler and engineer called George Robinson celebrated the apparent end of interracial hostilities by venturing out with his fellow volunteers to rediscover a peach orchard that war had made inaccessible. Appetites satisfied, he and his friends were exploring further into the lately contested territory, when they met a 'lad' they knew from one of the resistant Maori settlements. The boy invited them home where his people were now living: after some hesitation, they accompanied him.

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