Indigenous

The Local American blues-rock group Indigenous includes three brothers, Mato Nanji (vocals and guitar), Pte (bass), and Equine (percussion), and their sister, Wanbdi (drums, vocals). The Nakota Country members was raised on South Dakota’s Yankton Indian Booking and were motivated by their dad, Greg Zephier, who was simply a musician in the ’60s and ’70s and afterwards became a spokesperson for Local American privileges. The group released its 1998 debut record, Things We Perform, on Pachyderm Information; the video for the name track was aimed by Chris Eyre, who also aimed the award-winning Local American film Smoke cigarettes Indicators. The group released the Blues TODAY EP and Live at Pachyderm Studios in 1999, while earning acclaim from critics and performers like Bonnie Raitt, the Indigo Women, and Jackson Browne. The Group implemented in 2000.