Experience soaring indie rock with Black Belt Eagle Scout, the acclaimed Swinomish/Iñupiaq songwriter and guitarist Katherine Paul. With richly textured guitar work and evocative vocals, she creates music that is a love letter to indigenous strength and healing.

Blending indie rock, dream pop, shoegaze, and Pacific Northwest grunge with deeply personal songwriting and Indigenous musical influences, Black Belt Eagle Scout is known for dynamic live performances that travel from hushed moments of reflection to immersive waves of cathartic release.

Praised by Pitchfork, NPR Music, and Rolling Stone for powerful albums, including The Land, The Water, The Sky, Paul’s music carries the spirit of the Pacific Northwest, of her ancestral lands. Drawing from themes of identity, community, resilience, and connection to place, she crafts a space where grief, joy, love, and resilience converge, celebrating and honoring all the ancestors who walked these lands before her.