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ALIEN WEAPONRY - Raupatu (Official Music Video) #Māori #WhakaRoundFindOut #HīkoiMōTeTiriti #ToituTeTiriti #IndgMusicClub #Raupatu
ALIEN WEAPONRY - Raupatu (Official Music Video)
Strypey"We have to stop this blatant land (coast) grab."
'Save our Shores', Hobson's Pledge, 2024
https://www.hobsonspledge.nz/saveourshores
You mean the one where the Pākeha iwi recognised by Te Tiriti o Waitangi grab coastal areas under mana whenua of other hapū and iwi for hundreds of years before we arrived in these islands? That land grab?
I like what Alien Weaponry have to say on land grabs;
I've never been more proud to be from Aotearoa than when I saw a huge crowd of metal fans, from all around the world, going crazy to Alien Weaponry at Wacken. Their music is a glorious expression of both their whakapapa Māori and their European ancestry. The music video for Raupatu is right up there with the video to Right in Two by Tool, as one of the most deeply affecting piece of audio-visual art I've ever seens:
@amscraig
Alien Weaponry, 'Raupatu' *:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CrGHGwH2wlg
* Note for international readers: Raupatu is a word in Te Reo Māori - the first language of Aotearoa - for the mass confiscations of land from its traditional owners by the settler colony of New Zealand.
The #AlienWeaponry song '#Raupatu', about the NZ Wars confiscations of land and denial of self-determination, sends shivers up my spine every time:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=CrGHGwH2wlg
Raupatu is a word in Te Reo Māori, the first language of Aotearoa, which refers to this practice of mass confiscation.
ALIEN WEAPONRY - Raupatu (Official Music Video)
***Click the CC button on the right to turn on English subtitles for the Maori lyrics*** Produced By Tom Larkin Mixed by Samuel K Sproull at Studios in The city Melbourne. Recorded at Roundhead Studios