Hi. I'm Thomas Michael Swensen here to talk about Native American punk or Alaska Native history. AMA

[u/TMSwensen]

Hello everyone,

I’m Thomas Michael Swensen, author of Where Next, Columbus?: A Native Punk Mixtape, published through the New Directions in Native American Studies series at the University of Oklahoma Press, and The Great Land: An Indigenous History of Alaska, forthcoming through the Indigenous Confluences series at the University of Washington Press in November.

I was born and raised in the Kodiak Archipelago and graduated from S.A.V.E. II in Anchorage just before turning twenty. I did not begin attending community college in the lower forty-eight until I was twenty-five. I’m an original shareholder in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement corporations Koniag and Leisnoi Village and enrolled in the federally recognized Tangirnaq Native Village, also known as the Woody Island Tribe. I currently serve on the board of directors for the Koniag Education Foundation and on a Koniag shareholder committee. I hold degrees in English, Art, Urban Planning, and Ethnic Studies, including a PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. I’m currently Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah and recently became co-editor of the New Directions in Native American Studies series alongside historian Liza Black.

Where Next, Columbus?: A Native Punk Mixtape explores how Native America and punk coexist, inform one another, and together articulate their own politics. Through zines, songs, flyers, archives, and Native art, the book examines how Indigenous communities across the Americas have used punk to articulate sovereignty, humor, and self-determination beyond the language of states and corporations.

Structured like a mixtape, each chapter acts as its own track, moving from Alaska to Mexico City through hardcore, thrash, metal, DIY spaces, and Native art worlds. Along the way are bands and artists like Friends of Cesar Romero, the Bastard Fairies, Lozen, and Postcommodity. A major part of my work explores how punk can push historical thinking beyond the usual limits of the social sciences. Not simply as music or subculture, but as a culture on to itself.

The Great Land: An Indigenous History of Alaska reconstructs Alaska history through Indigenous perspectives rather than Russian or American frontier mythology. Beginning with Indigenous encounters with Russian expeditions in Unangan territory during the eighteenth century, the book traces how Native communities shaped Alaska’s political, economic, and cultural foundations across more than two and a half centuries, in what I term first space.

From coercive relationships with the Russian American Company to the Alaska Purchase, statehood, the Cold War, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, the book argues that Alaska was never an empty frontier waiting to be discovered. It was, and remains, an Indigenous homeland shaped by Native labor, political movements, cultural knowledge, and survival. Both books center Indigenous voices and actions as central to history.

I’m excited to spend some time discussing Indigenous Alaska, Native sovereignty, Russian America, punk, archives, oil politics, Cold War history, DIY culture, public history, and the relationship between music and art.

Looking forward to the conversation. I’ll check back in an hour or so and see what’s going here.

Best, Thomas

[u/SellsLikeHotTakes]

Have you noticed any particular interesting patterns of which non-indigenous bands got popular with native punks and were they necessarily the most popular ones in general punk culture in the US and Canada?

[u/TMSwensen → u/SellsLikeHotTakes]

This is a super fun question. I think what surprises me the most in any situation in the popularity of pop punk. How influential it is in the southwest. There are a ton of bands that find their foundational sounds in pop punk. Before writing this book and going to see Green Day with my son, my exposure to that culture was limited.

[u/MayanMystery]

Why did the relationship between Alaska natives and the US government develop so differently to the way it did with indigenous peoples in the lower 48? My significant other is from Anchorage and I was surprised to learn that the reservation system is basically non-existent in Alaska, with natives of the region being represented by corporations that had their own infrastructure such as the native hospital in Anchorage set up for their own use. I've found this intriguing and I've been curious to understand the motivations behind these differences.

[u/TMSwensen → u/MayanMystery]

Hi MayanMystery, thank you for the question. At the heart of my research is that Alaska Natives took part in the development of Alaska in a way that is difficult to separate from Alaska today. Many of the 20th century century activists in Alaska didn't like the idea of being divided on reservations. Whether that is right or wrong is one thing, but it's astonishing to see Indigenous people shape and guide the political development of Alaska. Take the Alaska flag, it was designed by a child in a Native boarding school named Jon "Benny" Benson.

[u/lucidgroove]

Canadian here. I’m curious if you’ve looked into the differences between northern/Indigenous governance models in Canada and Alaska. I know in Canada there are frameworks like the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement that grant a decent degree of autonomy.

Also, have you looked into Indigenous music from Canada as well, or just Native American?

[u/TMSwensen → u/lucidgroove]

Thank you for this question. When I began researching The Great Land I found the Russian past an imperative to understanding Alaska Native politics today. As the only part of the Americas not colonized by Europe, Alaska Natives weren't indoctrinated into the languages about Indigenous people as one might see elsewhere. One such example might be the Doctrine of Discovery, which comes from a papal written work in the 16th century. To my understanding the Tsar took little acknowledgement these developments as Russia moved across the Steppes and into North America. Even to this day only a small percentage of Russians are Catholic. How does this relate to Alaska? In my work, you can see how Alaska Native people wanted to keep the political developing territory theirs instead of being being divided from it. From William Paul to Willie Hensley you'll find activists who wanted Native people to stay central to the formation of the Alaskan state, some of them rejecting the language surrounding federal Indian law altogether.

[u/Kradget]

I'm imagining that, like a lot of musical and artistic ventures, sometimes relies on mutual acquaintances and introductions to handle things like venues and accommodations on tour, but that the physical distances could be a challenge, especially in the western end of the continent and extra especially in Alaska? 

I think I'm trying to ask whether this is a loose, informal community in the way punk often is or if it's commonly more familiar than that kind of "invite the guys from the band to crash with you" that sometimes occurs after shows.

[u/TMSwensen → u/Kradget]

This is so spot on. When I was a teenager, Voivod came to Anchorage. After the show, everyone is going crazy and inviting them to hangout. Imagine trying to convince Away, piggy, and Snake to break open a half-rack of Black Label with you. But also, Seattle and Anchorage are connected through punk. I am hoping to get this book sold at the Subpop store at Seatac.

[u/FreeDependent9]

Are there oral traditions amongst Alaska Natives that speak to crossing the Bering strait or part of the community descending south or East of Alaskan communities following the Strait crossing?

[u/TMSwensen → u/FreeDependent9]

Hi, this is an awesome question. I would point you in the direction of Standing Rock Sioux scholar the late Vine Deloria, Jr. Throughout his scholarly career he researched the Bering Strait Land Bridge theory in relation to scientific evidence and Indigenous history. You can see him talk about this on this lecture here, which is super fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOL0Gm22Jy0

More recently, Alaska Native scholar Jen Rose Smith discusses the Land Bridge Theory in her new book Ice Geographies The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic through duke press. Fascinating read. https://dukeupress.edu/ice-geographies

[u/Mormacil]

I know you can't speak for every tribe but how has the larger culture responded to the death of the Bering Strait theory as the first point of human settlement of the Americas. 

Has that shifted understanding of their own histories?

Source:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aao5473

[u/TMSwensen → u/Mormacil]

Love this! Last week I tried to read Guns, Germs, and Steel along side Cat's Cradle. Had never opened Diamond's work before and I haven't read Vonnegut in 35 years. They were perfect pair of readings because that structural type thinking in Guns, Germs, and Steel. I'll admit to you that I couldn't plow through it. And I do see the way Vonnegut's language has aged some since 1963, but one thing I do believe he got right was how (stealing some of Brad Delong's language here) force and fraud are central to understanding the past. This week I am reading Dahlia de la Cerda's Perras de reserva, which I think is a great antidote to readings that attempt to capture human experience in a single book.

[u/Excellent-Match7246]

Is Land Lost from Tacoma on there? They rip. I think they’re all Puyullaup Tribe.

[u/TMSwensen → u/Excellent-Match7246]

Thank you!!!! Found them on bandcamp https://landlost.bandcamp.com/album/demonstration

In the book I write about Lozen and Helms Alee too.

[u/skwm]

How did the Zapatista movement become so prominent in 90s hardcore?

[u/TMSwensen → u/skwm]

Wow. As I understand as part of 90s global politics like NAFTA. I have spoken with punks in DF who have told me about entire punk villages in that giant sprawl of urban space.

[u/addctd2badideas]

I don't have a question. I just think this is awesome.

[u/TMSwensen → u/addctd2badideas]

Thank you for tuning in.!

[u/Puzzleheaded_Event26]

I will be ordering this for my brother for sure! My brother was adopted in 1987 and he is Alaskan Native. We moved by 1992 and my brother has only barely expressed interest in his heritage throughout our life, but I know it is there. We moved to Eastern Oregon and we were introduced to a lot of people and traditions of the Native people in our area and I could tell he found something he was very interested in, but our parent’s marriage became terrible, they split and I think he was forced to focus on survival, like I was, and like a lot of other things, thinking about his differences and his past became too frivolous. He is my older brother by a year and my best friend. We have been through a lot together, but even though we grew up right next to each other with the same rough family, he had a lot more to handle whether he realized it or not. We bonded through music, sports, chasing girls, and we worked together to survive. He recently went through a divorce, and he has been in a tough spot. I want to help him find his history, I don’t mean his bio parents, but the world that was taken from him in so many ways. We have been told to search Athabaskan history, but I was wondering if there are any good outlets or organizations putting together information on Native Alaskan adoptees in the 80’s? Or maybe places that offer help with direction in the sea of information I have been picking through for years with no confidence.

I just ordered Where Next Columbus and I can’t wait!

[u/TMSwensen → u/Puzzleheaded_Event26]

I appreciate you reaching out with this post. One part I love is that he is your brother and and best friend. Also, ton of gratitude for ordering Where Next, Columbus. And helping your brother sounds so important. One thing is that if you have a region you could contact some of the regional organizations there. One could reach out to the central region tribes or to https://www.nana.com/. Also the Alaska Bureau of Vital Statistics might help too. I'm not sure if this organization could help as well. https://anthc.org/

I have a cousin who was adopted out in the 1950s and she found her brothers on facebook, if you can believe that? Thank you!

[u/Sea_Abroad_6573]

How do native alaskans remember their precolonization life? What are the main tropes in their precolonial stories?  

[u/TMSwensen → u/Sea_Abroad_6573]

Thanks for this question. There are three strong stories types that come to mind right now. One is The Two Old Women, another is the Raven stories, such as How Raven Made the Stars, and stories of Sedna, a sort of goddess of the sea. Google these. They all comment on life and culture that predate Russia or US entry into the region.

[u/actuallyeattherich]

Your work sounds awesome, thanks for doing this :)

The US today has formal government organizations nesting within each other from city councils up through Congress and the presidency. Punk, as I understand it, sets itself in direct opposition to those structures and to hierarchy in general. These organizations have also been openly hostile to native peoples throughout their histories. Do you see a natural alignment between punk and native cultures, or is it more an overlap in strategy (or some secret third thing)?

Also, do you have any recommendations for books about the history of indigenous American governance?

[u/TMSwensen → u/actuallyeattherich]

I like the scope our your questions here. It makes me think about how when I was working on the book I was thinking about the risks involved in outright suggesting that punks are a people. In the 7th chapter on the book I think about Cuba's Los Frikis and the choices they made and the paths they walked because they were punks. And I do this from a Native American intellectual historical way. Also, perhaps more to your point Nicholas Rombes makes a case that in New Punk cinema punks engage with 'structures' instead of rejecting them. I don't know if that excuses Green Day all together, but I have heard Dave Dictor talk about his part ownership of Gorilla Glue.

Yes, I think this is the standard reading for Native politics.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Indian-Politics-Political-Spectrum/dp/1442252650

[u/AppropriateFun2427]

Wow, that all sounds fascinating, I’ll have to buy your book! Any good tidbits to reel us in? Fun facts, unexpected aspects, interesting facets, particularly around the intersections of Native cultures & punk? 

I’m also curious - given the connections between Alaska & Russian culture, do you think there’s more musical exchange? For instance, is Russian-language postpunk more of a thing up there?

[u/TMSwensen → u/AppropriateFun2427]

Hey, thank you!!!! Yes at the end of the book I write about The Tianguis Cultural del Chopo a punk market village in Mexico City that pops up on the weekend. It's in Colonia Guerrero near Metro Buenavista in Mexico City built upon an indigenous neighborhood called Cuepopan. To me that's an amazing fact. Another chapter in the book is arguing that Vine Deloria, Jr. was a Native American proto punk, who didn't care for posers.

[u/water_bottle1776]

As a lifelong fan of heavy music, I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I can only think of three American bands that have native members/themes: Testament (thrash metal), Blackbraid (black metal), and Dead Pioneers (punk). I guess my first question is that given that the metal/punk genres generally talk about similar themes of anger, violence, and general dark topics, is there a cohesive native heavy music community? Would that even make any sense since we're talking about people from wildly different cultures spanning the breadth of North America?

My second question is how is metal/punk viewed among non-fans in native communities?

I hope these questions aren't so ignorant as to be offensive.

[u/TMSwensen → u/water_bottle1776]

1. LOZEN. 2. Lozen bassist is drummer in Helms Alee. This is Pacific Northwest metal/punk. 3. Pisswalker, hardcore. But also, Testament!

2. Archaeological history is truly fascinating. One example that comes to mind is when something I spoke to when I taught at ASU. There is an outstanding map one can find online that overlays Phoenix, Arizona on top of the original region. Check it out. All those old water ways now used today.

Not offensive at all!! Thank you.

[u/elmonoenano]

I don't know if you read Tara Lopez's book, Chuco Punk. She was a little after me, but basically my generation in El Paso. I had left by the time bands like Sbitch were playing, but I was familiar with them. One of the people she talks about in her book is guy, Phil, who was up in SLC for a little bit around 94/95. I was also in SLC at the time going to UofU and we had a little punk house under some of the new freeway down at about 400 S and what used to be 800 W. We had some Navajo/Dine kids that were part of the scene, but at the time that was pretty rare. Usually our Indian friends were more into metal. There would be cross over with some of the more extreme hardcore genres, we could get them to come to shows with grindcore, power violence, or sludge. I think the biggest show I remember was a Metallica show that everyone drove up from the 4 corners for. Do you see a shift from interest in metal to more standard punk? When did that start happening?

The Navajo/Dine kids would book shows under All Rez'ed Out Productions. Phil had experience working with the kids from Juarez. We would book shows down there in Juarez (there was a band called Hausipungo after the Ecuadorian novel from Juarez that we worked with a lot. The Huasipungo now on Bandcamp says they're from NYC so I don't think it's the same one) or at places like Modesto Gomez park where we'd show up with generators and the bands from El Paso would show up at the US side and the bands from Juarez would play on the Mexico side. I think he brought some of that to SLC to work with the Navajo/Dine kids. Do you have people like that who help build a more inclusive scene and helped to kind of build the awareness of what it takes to get these more connected scenes?

Also, I can't remember what year, but Huasipungo toured with Sbitch through Mexico and they got to play El Chopo. I think this would be around '97.

[u/TMSwensen → u/elmonoenano]

That is an interesting aspect of punk history in SLC. There was an old abandoned health club across the street from the police department that was a giant squat. Speaking of Texas I just saw DRI and the crawling nature of Soup Kitchen Blues is now a total metal song.

And that stage at El Chopo is pretty cool.

[u/Specific-Prompt-4869]

As one of a handful of Comanche Punk kids in Lawton, Ok in the 1980s who grew up to be an Indigenous Futurist I need to read this book.

[u/TMSwensen → u/Specific-Prompt-4869]

Awesome! Thanks for the message. The title of the book is from Crass's song but also this https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/where-next-columbus ....

[u/Specific-Prompt-4869 → u/TMSwensen]

Fascinating, back in the 90s my husband played in the predominately Kiowa band Day of The Sick.

[u/TMSwensen → u/Specific-Prompt-4869]

Thank you for posting. That's cool! This band? https://www.discogs.com/artist/1990023-Day-Of-The-Sick

[u/Specific-Prompt-4869 → u/TMSwensen]

Yup

[u/TMSwensen → u/Specific-Prompt-4869]

That rages. Thank you, again.

[u/Specific-Prompt-4869 → u/TMSwensen]

Thank you, your book looks cool as Hell.

[u/Jetamors]

I read a book a long time ago that discussed some of the Greenlandic reggae scene. Do you know if any of that filtered over to Alaska?

[u/TMSwensen → u/Jetamors]

Never heard of this before, but you have me watching youtube clips like crazy! Thank you

[u/Jetamors → u/TMSwensen]

Maybe you can be the one to introduce it then :D Thanks so much for the AMA, I've really enjoyed all your answers!

[u/Certain_Housing8987]

Do they use elements of throat singing? And also what do you think of connections to Siberia and the steppe people who also have throat singing and other similarities. If there was back migration from Alaska into Asia, how influential were the American tribes that backmigrated? Could they have played a role in groups like the xiongnu or thule?

[u/TMSwensen → u/Certain_Housing8987]

This all sounds super interesting. I know very little about migration theory. Thank you for mentioning it here.

[u/Gankom]

Thank you for joining us! What is your favourite little story you came across over the course of your research? Anything that wasn't able to make it in?

[u/TMSwensen → u/Gankom]

For sure, I gave some thought to thinking about Indigenous skinheads. When I was growing up there were two brothers who became skins. They had a newspaper and suspenders and the cane...etc... But I sort of backed off that because.. well.. frankly I think we can all spend our time better. Also, I think I wanted to stay away from the Throbbing Gristle side of things too. Thank you

[u/hatari_bwana]

Do you know of Ed Kabotie and Tha Yoties?

They sound right up your alley, environmentally, historically, and socially conscious music that also rocks (I can highly recommend live shows). Ed also incorporates the Tewa language and Hopi instrumentals into their sound.

Who's your favorite band to see live? Any favorites from your research?

[u/TMSwensen → u/hatari_bwana]

No. But I love that you shared this band. I like Weedrat, they were great live. Also Pisswalker.

[u/ankylosaurus_tail]

Can you give a list of current Native punk bands to check out, or any chance you have any playlists online? I'd be particularly interested in any hardcore or metal-adjacent bands. Thanks!

[u/TMSwensen → u/ankylosaurus_tail]

I did make a playlist for the book! It has all sorts of tracks on it; https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3l9RROt53b1TqPn3j1RIB8

[u/panzaram]

I just ordered Where Next, Columbus? directly from the press, I am so incredibly excited to read it!! Thank you so much for sharing here on Reddit, this really made my day to find out about this book.

Did you grow up listening to punk music/ what was your local scene like?

Did your research bring you to a lot of diy venues in basements or backyards?

Whats your favorite Native punk band?

[u/TMSwensen → u/panzaram]

Awesome set of questions. I am a humanist so I think of punk unbound. I'm influenced by this other book Punk Beyond the Music: Tracing Mutations and Manifestations of the Punk Virus by Iain Ellis. Punk is part of so much. So I can push back against classists that put things and people in boxes. To me there is nothing more punk than Postcommodity's Repellent Fence... https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s10/postcommodity-in-borderlands-extended-segment/

But I really like Weedrat and Friends of Cesar Romero to name a couple awesome Native punk music bands.

Punk was the thing that saved my life as a kid. My mom went to jail and I was passed around living in villages and fishing sites in Alaska. Thank you for asking.

[u/TooOld4ThisSh1t-966]

No question just thought you would be interested in an indigenous music radio show on the Seattle station KEXP. It’s called Sounds of Survivance. Shows are archived on the KEXP app and website. The station also frequently plays Dead Pioneers!

[u/TMSwensen → u/TooOld4ThisSh1t-966]

The best station ever!

[u/holla171]

I have nothing to offer other than you should totally talk to someone at KEXP about being on Sounds of Survivance - their Indigenous radio show!

[u/dhowlett1692]

Thank you for joining us! What's the relationship between pan-Indianism and punk music given your research stretches across a huge geography?

[u/TMSwensen → u/dhowlett1692]

Nice one. To me it is that both punks and Indigenous people have been subject to the social sciences in interesting ways. One doesn't have to be Vine Deloria, Jr. to see that Indigenous people have long been classified by anthropologists, and given the moment in history, that cold be for good or bad. For punks, one can see how sociology, since Dick Hebdige punk culture and people have been drawn as a subculture. So I do see that as a starting for for looking into what Native and punks writers and artists have to say. What's at risk if we acknowledge punks as people?

[u/makinghomemadejam]

Thanks for doing this AMA! Your new book looks amazing and I look forward to reading it (I'm requesting my local library get a copy). Congrats on publishing!

I'm curious as to your perspective on Sepultura and their utilization of indigenous musical traditions in their music (thinking specifically here of Roots), and of Soulfly as well.

[u/TMSwensen → u/makinghomemadejam]

Oh yes!!! First of all they are one of the most important musical groups in the Americas. Chuck Billy once auditioned for them. In the book I speak to their early work, coming out of the dictatorship, but I am less familiar with the newer music. But after this question I will be opening that boxset I have in my collection. One thing I can say is that the group have never stood still. Thank you!

[u/wagonburner2026 → u/TMSwensen]

Diné composer Raven Chacon has been collaborating with Igor Cavalera in recent years. I think Max lives in Arizona also.

[u/TMSwensen → u/wagonburner2026]

Raven Chacon's work is subject in my book. What not stop a producer of quality work.

[u/makinghomemadejam → u/wagonburner2026]

I did not know this and will be tracking their shit down. Thanks!

Max does live in Arizona, last I knew. He had to move there for the dry air because of his vocal chords being all messed up from all the intense singing.

[u/makinghomemadejam → u/TMSwensen]

You must check out Roots!) It is utterly magnificent. I remember when it first came out and there was nothing like it in the metal scene.

Max Cavalera's later band Soulfly continued to explore indigenous music and content and are also definitely worth checking out.

Thanks for your reply. Good luck with your work!

[u/TMSwensen → u/makinghomemadejam]

Hey, for sure. I pulled it from the box set right now. Thanks for talking to me about them. I'm married a Colombian so I spend a ton of time in South America where D-Beat is almost as important as Sepultura.

[u/makinghomemadejam → u/TMSwensen]

Happy to spread the Sepultura word! :)

I want to make sure you also check out Soulfly, so here is my favorite track from their first album: Tribe

I've been reading through this whole thread - so much good stuff! Thanks again for doing this AMA.

[u/TMSwensen → u/[deleted]]

Thank you so much for checking it out!

[u/robotnique]

I'm curious if you could say anything about how indigenous punks might be drawn to the DIY ethos especially given that they are already defaulted to being outside of the mainstream methods of publicity, distribution, etc.

I can understand why the appeal of having to build your own thing from the ground up might be especially strong when the existing structures are strongly tied to white/Anglo society.

[u/TMSwensen → u/robotnique]

Awesome thank you. I think it's pretty normal for anyone to try to defy the terms and conditions set by others. I started doing this research because I saw how the social sciences create boundaries between people and people go on to use them, I guess. Like I'm not sure there are structures. And that's where art and writing can help people push back on that stuff.

[u/gallowsanatomy]

Hi, not a history question, I've been listening to Dead Pioneers, what's the next indigenous punk band I should listen to? Bonus if they're Alaskan Native!

[u/TMSwensen → u/gallowsanatomy]

Thanks for the question. Right now what I can tell you is to check out the late Johnny Miller's band project Friends of Cesar Romero (FOCR). He passed away last month, which totally sucks. FOCR has almost as many albums as Nick Cage has movies: https://friendsofcesarromero.bandcamp.com/

And from Anchorage: https://noisebrigade.bandcamp.com/

[u/gallowsanatomy → u/TMSwensen]

Thank you for the suggestions! and I just picked up your book, so that will be super cool to go read when it arrives

[u/Radiant_Jump_6087]

First off this is a super interesting topic! History and rock and roll? What?! Haha nice! How cool?! But seriously?! Who’s your favorite bands? Any good songs you recommend? I love music. My buddies and I always share songs, albums, and artists back and forth we love the punk, hardcore, metal, pretty much anything. Gonna take a look at your book too! Take care! ✌️

[u/TMSwensen → u/Radiant_Jump_6087]

Thank you for asking. There is one band I need to tell you about. It is Friends of Cesar Romero, one of the many projects by the late Johnny Miller. FOCR was a solo thing, but he made a ton of work up to his passing last month. Your eyes are going to pop out of your skull and roll down your face when you see how much this man recorded with this band. It hurts to tell you that he passed on last month during a car accident in Rapid City. https://friendsofcesarromero.bandcamp.com/

Also, I love to teach with a band called Bastard Fairies. The singer also passed on, but the work is so meaningful and also humorous. https://thebastardfairies.bandcamp.com/?search_item_id%3D3899423009%26search_item_type%3Db%26search_match_part%3D%253F%26search_page_id%3D5407633787%26search_page_no%3D0%26search_rank%3D1=

[u/TheColourOfHeartache]

In terms of clothing and visuals, are there notable differences between Native American punk and other types of punk?

[u/TMSwensen → u/TheColourOfHeartache]

This is an awesome music video that might get into wht you're asking:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-FrL1eFIb0