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Jan 16, 2019 By Christopher Roberts Black Belt Eagle Scout

Black Belt Eagle Scout is the project of Portland-based Katherine Paul, an indigenous queer musician who grew up in a small Indian reservation, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, and whose debut album, Mother of My Children, came out last September via Saddle Creek. Now she has shared a video for album highlight “Soft Stud.” Watch it below, followed by her upcoming tour dates (which includes info on the tribes connected to each of the cities she is playing).

Paul had this to say about the video in a press release: “Demien DinéYazhí and I created this video on the traditional lands of the Chinook people along the Columbia River, where most indigenous people of the PNW travel to this day. We played with symbolism a lot within the work. Our relationship to water is prevalent in this video as well as the joy of being an indigenous woman. Release of feelings with birds flying away as well as connection to land play a part in the video.”

Read our 2018 interview with Black Belt Eagle Scout.

Read our review of Mother of My Children.

Black Belt Eagle Scout Tour Dates:

Fri. Jan. 18 - Chinook (Portland, OR) @ Mississippi Studios
Sat. Mar. 16 - Wichita (Dallas, TX) @ Not So Fun Wknd
Thu. April 18 - Očeti Šakówin (Sioux Falls, SD) @ Total Drag
Tue. April 23 - Osage (Pittsburgh, PA) @ Mr. Roboto Project
Wed. April 24 - Lenape (New York, NY) @ Bowery Ballroom
Thu. April 25 - Lenape (Philadelphia, PA) @ Johnny Brenda’s
Fri. April 26 - Wampanoag/Massachusett (Allston, MA) @ Great Scott
Sat. April 27 - Iroquois/Mohawk (Montreal, QC) @ Bar Le Ritz PDB
Sun. April 28 - Anishinabewaki/Huron-Wendat (Toronto, ON) @ Horseshoe Tavern
Tue. April 30 - Pamunkey/Piscataway (Washington, DC) @ DC9
Wed. May 1 - Powhatan Confederacy (Richmond, VA) @ The Camel
Thu. May 2 - Catawba (Carrboro, NC) @ Cat’s Cradle - Back Room
Sat. May 4 - Muscogee/ Creek (Atlanta, GA) @ 529 Club
Mon. May 6 - Cherokee/ Shawnee (Nashville, TN) @ Third Man Records
Tue. May 7 - Miami (Columbus, OH) @ Ace of Cups
Wed. May 8 - Peoria/Potawatomi/Miami (Chicago, IL) @ Schuba’s
Thu. May 9 - Anishinabewaki/Očeti Šakówin (Minneapolis, MN) @ 7th Street Entry
Fri. May 10 - Omaha/Očeti Šakówin (Omaha, NE) @ Reverb Lounge
Sat. May 11 - Osage/Kaw/Očeti Šakówin (Kansas City, MO) @ recordBar
Mon. May 13 - arapaho/Cheyenne/Ute/Sioux (Denver, CO) @ Larimer Lounge
Tue. May 14 - Eastern Shoshone/Goshute (Salt Lake City, UT) @ Urban Lounge
Fri. May 17 - Tsleil-Waututh/Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw/ S’ohl Téméxw/Stziuminus
(Vancouver, BC) @ The Fox Cabaret
Sat. May 18 - Duwamish/Puget Sound Salish (Seattle, WA) @ Tractor Tavern
Sun. May 19 - Cinook (Portland, OR) @ Mississippi Studios
Tue. May 21 - Ramaytush/Ohlone (San Francisco, CA) @ Swedish American Hall
Thu. May 23 -Tongva ( Los Angeles, CA) @ Teragram Ballroom
Tue. June 4 - Tonkawa/Comanche (Austin, TX) @ Barracuda
Wed. June 5 - Sana (Houston, TX) @ White Oak Music Hall
Thu. June 6 - Chahta Yakni/Chitimacha (New Orleans, LA) @ Gasa Gasa

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