Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter Katherine Paul, a.k.a. Black Belt Eagle Scout, tells us about the lifetime of experience that went into her fiery, brilliant new album, and what it was like to have her music featured on 'Reservation Dogs.'
“I didn’t know that that song was gonna be in such an emotional scene,” KP says. “And when I saw it, I just fucking bawled my eyes out. I was just crying.” She recalls a text she sent to co-creator and showrunnerPart of what makes that series special to KP, and so many Indigenous people, is the way it allows them to feel seen in the media they take in. KP came up in the still-thriving riot grrrl movement of the Pacific Northwest in the 2000s, but lately she’s been reconsidering that time.
Feeling like part of a community is of the utmost importance to KP, whether it’s a scene, a people, or where you were born. And maybe to some, where you’re from can feel like happenstance — a matter of fact. But for KP, it’s hard to imagine herself living anywhere else. She describes the Skagit Bay area as feeling like medicine for her. “It almost sort of seems wrong to not live here,” she says. She’s as inseparable from the region as the salmon berries she sees grow.
“I think about the future generations of my family living here and always being able to have that connection,” KP says. “That thought of grounding and stability, of seeing the same thing and being aware of these same landscapes, and how that’s important to who we are.”in which she sings, “Do you ever notice what’s around you?/When it’s all right under our skin.” As we speak, she notes that she can see the reservation from her window.
She has plans to build a home studio soon, then expand outward to a studio elsewhere on the reservation. It feels like part of a larger design she tells me about. “There’s this thing that happens in my community where when we grow up as youth, we’re encouraged to go out and get an education, get some job experience out in the world, and then come back and give back to your community,” she says. “That’s one of our teachings here that we tell our youth.”
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