UPPER HUTT POSSE. KA WHAWHAI TONU MATOU

Year: 2011
Reference: F227252
Media type: Moving image

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Year: 2011
Reference: F227252
Media type: Moving image

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This is the music video for the song, ‘Ka Whawhai Tonu Mātou’ from the 2011 album, ‘Declaration of Resistance’.

The video features Taungaroa Emile going for a bush walk. They encounter ghosts from the 1864 battle of Ōrākau.
Street scenes depicting police brutality are seen.
Emile uses a taiaha, that is given to him by one of the ghost warriors to to fight the police.

The song is sung in both te reo Māori and English.