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‘It’s where I belong’: Black Belt Eagle Scout’s latest album celebrates home

The cover photo of the new Black Belt Eagle Scout album is of a woman waist-deep in Washington’s Puget Sound. The seawater behind her ripples in paisley patterns. A flotilla of clouds looks as if it’s slipped free of gravity’s last grasp. It’s meant to be evocative.

“There’s waterways and beaches of beautiful rocks and shells,” says Katherine Paul, the Native American indie rocker who records as Black Belt Eagle Scout, of the area. “And then there’s our people. Our people are here, too.”

The album, her third, debuts Friday with the

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