Lisa Charleyboy with Urban Native Mag spoke with Pawnee and Seminole activist Quese IMC about his latest project, a music video for his song Handdrum.
Quese IMC’s directorial debut video was shot in Oklahoma City at his father’s place in a trailer that stays on the property and is used for people to gather before they use the sweatlodge. “I wanted to show how it’s important it is to have our sacred smokes with traditional tobacco rolled with corn husks, which is from a garden that I planted with our sacred corn,” he says. “And to show how we can use that smoke to bless ourselves.
Read more of the interview with Quese IMC on Urban Native Mag.