Name: Te Aro Pā
Duration: P00H03M58S
Description: Te Aro Pā was a stronghold for Māori based in Pōneke during the 1800s including largely Ngāti Ruanui and Taranaki. British colonialists pressured for a sale of the land which was resisted by local iwi, but by 1870 they had been forced to subdivide and sell their papa kainga. This track is for those who tended and nourished the whenua on which we now live.

Te Aro Pā

from Pōneke by Ruby Solly

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Te Aro Pā was a stronghold for Māori based in Pōneke during the 1800s including largely Ngāti Ruanui and Taranaki. British colonialists pressured for a sale of the land which was resisted by local iwi, but by 1870 they had been forced to subdivide and sell their papa kainga. This track is for those who tended and nourished the whenua on which we now live.

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Ki te mana whenua
o Taranaki Whānui,
o Ngati Ruanui;
we see you still.
I te ao tāwhito,
you were pushed and pulled
and every time I walk
these red bricked streets
I see them,
moving your boundary lines.
They pressed against you,
firm hands slowly gripping you
tighter and tighter.
Until you let your breath fall
and sold the land from under you.
Now the young dance
on your memory.
How bitter sweet
to move freely
in places
where your homes
were made smaller
and smaller
until they were
gone.

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from Pōneke, released June 5, 2020

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Ruby Solly Wellington, New Zealand

Ruby Solly (Kai Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) is a musician, writer and taonga puoro practitioner living in Pōneke, Aotearoa. Her first album 'Pōneke' explores the hidden histories of Wellington as well as the part that the environment plays within the recording and composing process. ... more

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