{"id":953080,"date":"2023-01-11T17:28:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/?p=224180"},"modified":"2023-01-11T17:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:28:44","slug":"protest-songs-of-the-week-black-belt-eagle-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/11\/protest-songs-of-the-week-black-belt-eagle-scout\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest Song(s) Of The Week: Black Belt Eagle Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Black Belt Eagle Scout is the alias of Katherine Paul, an indigenous multi-instrumentalist and<br>singer-songwriter. Her third studio album,&nbsp;&#8220;The Land, the Water, the Sky,&#8221;&nbsp;will be released on<br>February 10. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a press statement, she declared \u201cI created&nbsp;<em>The Land, the Water, the Sky<\/em>&nbsp;to record and reflect upon my journey back to my homelands and the challenges and the happiness it brought.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three singles from the album were released. &#8220;Don&#8217;t Give Up,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/black-belt-eagle-scout-single-175156856.html\">according<\/a> to Paul, is a song about mental<br>health awareness and the importance that her connection to the land plays within her own mental<br>health journey. Spending time with the land and on the water strengthened her connection to her ancestors and her culture. <br><br>The lyrics &#8216;I don\u2019t give up\u201d mean staying alive. I wrote this song for me but also for my community and anyone who deals with challenging mental health issues to remind us just how much of a role our connection to the environment plays within our healing process,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Black Belt Eagle Scout - Don&#039;t Give Up [Official Audio]\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/odn5zxAM0YU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/black-belt-eagle-scout-announces-album-shares-my-blood-runs-through-this-land\/\">second single<\/a>, &#8220;My Blood Runs Through This Land,&#8221; also connects to Paul&#8217;s ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When I run my hands through the rocks at Snee Oosh Beach and dip my fingers into our waterways, I am reminded of where I come from,&#8221; Paul shared. &#8220;Paying attention to all of the sounds and the feelings I get when I am immersed in trails of cedar trees and canoeing out on the water deeply grounds me and strengthens my bond to my lineage of the Swinomish tribe.&#8221; <br><br>As Paul described, &#8220;I wanted the delicateness of these moments to meet the intense reality of the history of my people. I like to imagine my blood\u2014all of my ancestors\u2014running through our homelands freely and powerfully.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Belt Eagle Scout - My Blood Runs Through This Land [Official Video]\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntg4az1AsdM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The third single is &#8220;Nobody,&#8221; a poignant tune about the importance of representation.<br><br>\u201cWhen I was growing up, I didn\u2019t have very many Native role models to look to on TV or the radio,\u201d Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/floodmagazine.com\/123771\/watch-black-belt-eagle-scout-nobody\/\">recalled<\/a>. \u201cIt was within my own community that I found inspiring role models through our elders and our community leaders.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;With Native representation in music and television slowly growing, I often ask myself where I stand within representation in music and how I want to be seen. This song is about the relationship I have with my own representation in music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video for this single was directed by indigenous filmmaker Evan Benally Atwood. The visuals beautifully depict a day in the life of an Indigenous family, displaying the moments of kinship that they share with the land and each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Belt Eagle Scout - Nobody [Official Music Video]\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KqUupCuRyss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/2023\/01\/11\/protest-songs-of-the-week-black-belt-eagle-scout\/\">Protest Song(s) Of The Week: Black Belt Eagle Scout<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/\">Shadowproof<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/2023\/01\/11\/protest-songs-of-the-week-black-belt-eagle-scout\/\">Shadowproof<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Belt Eagle Scout is the alias of Katherine Paul, an indigenous multi-instrumentalist andsinger-songwriter. Her third studio album,\u00a0\u201cThe Land, the Water, the Sky,\u201d\u00a0will be released onFebruary 10. In a press statement, she declared \u201cI created\u00a0The Land, the Water, the Sky\u00a0to record and reflect upon my journey back to my homelands<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/2023\/01\/11\/protest-songs-of-the-week-black-belt-eagle-scout\/\">Protest Song(s) Of The Week: Black Belt Eagle Scout<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/\">Shadowproof<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17554,2111,7502,5262,7500],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963358,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953080\/revisions\/963358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}