Black Belt Eagle Scout

Katherine Paul (born 1989), who has made two albums under the name “Black Belt Eagle Scout,” is a Swinomish and Iñupiaq singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Portland, Oregon. Her music is influenced by post-rock, alternative rock, and Native American traditional music. She sings her connections with nature despite the colonial violence and pain that has shaped our modern world. She has released an EP and three albums under the moniker Black Belt Eagle Scout. Her self-titled EP as Black Belt Eagle Scout was released in June 2014. Her debut studio album, Mother of My Children, was first released by Portland tape label Good Cheer Records in 2017, then re-released in September 2018 by Saddle Creek Records. Songs on the album deal with topics such as loss, grief, heartbreak, and Paul's identity as an indigenous woman, a "radical indigenous queer feminist" as she defines herself. Black Belt Eagle Scout has been compared to other West Coast bands such as Mazzy Star and Nirvana. Her by now latest album, “The Land, The Water, The Sky,” was released 2023 and celebrates Paul’s lineage and strength. [taken in part from wikipedia 'Katherine Paul']