... I will dig deeper. The only decisions Jake Heke made involved himself. He decided to drink, fight, and ignore his children and wife. He decided to beat his wife into submission. The morning after a particularly terrible beating, Beth tells her daughter, Grace, "such is a woman's lot." She says this in reference to the terrible things a husband does, proving that she has been colonized as a woman. To be colonized is to have lost part of your identity to someone or something different from you. Jake's tribal ancestors were a poor, low-level tribe. Beth's were royalty. Beth left her title of princess when she left with Jake. According to Pionair Adventure's history of New Zealand,"[New Zealand] remained largely uncolonized until the early 1800's. England's Captain James Cook, who first visited the Maori in 1769, opened the door to European (chiefly British) settlement. Western contact led to a decline in ...

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