UPPER HUTT POSSE. KA WHAWHAI TONU MATOU

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.