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Haka
I want to know!
Don't I belong here?
I was born at Papa-kura.
My whenua turned the soil red.
My mother cried like a seagull.
Her ancestors are buried in Papa-toetoe.
Their old heads are white plumes.
My father held me to this
upside-down sky and I sneezed.
Am I not maori?
I want to know!
Do you belong here?
Where is Kupe from?
His canoe was a strange tree.
Could he feel what my people felt?
This place to rest from the sea.
This longing for home.
Where do the dead return to?
Hawaiki nui. Hawaiki roa. Hawaiki pamaomao.
Are you not pakeha?
-- Glenn Colquhoun
I want to know!
Don't I belong here?
I was born at Papa-kura.
My whenua turned the soil red.
My mother cried like a seagull.
Her ancestors are buried in Papa-toetoe.
Their old heads are white plumes.
My father held me to this
upside-down sky and I sneezed.
Am I not maori?
I want to know!
Do you belong here?
Where is Kupe from?
His canoe was a strange tree.
Could he feel what my people felt?
This place to rest from the sea.
This longing for home.
Where do the dead return to?
Hawaiki nui. Hawaiki roa. Hawaiki pamaomao.
Are you not pakeha?
-- Glenn Colquhoun