From the Album Declaration of Resistance (2011)

In 2011 writer Simon Sweetman described Upper Hutt Posse as "less a band, more a musical journey, a concept". 'Ka Whawhai Tonu Mātou' (we continue to fight) is from 2011 album Declaration of Resistance. Mixing te reo Māori and English, the song addresses the negative effects of colonisation on tangata whenua, especially in regard to police racism. The timebending storyline features Taungaroa Emile (Boogie in Once Were Warriors) and his girlfriend encountering a ghostly warrior from the 1864 battle of Ōrākau, who gifts Emile a taiaha to fight back against the state.