In Sovereign Sound, Del Curfman satirically confronts the colonial legacy of the Smithsonian vinyl American Indian Dances, which reduced living Indigenous music to commodified artifacts. Olivia Komahcheet – musician and activist – appears surrounded by microphones and cords, reclaiming space for vibrant, evolving Native sound. Ledger-style hunters, buffalo, and sunset-orange text evoking teepees frame a world where ceremonial dances were once flattened into tracklists.

Curfman’s dynamic composition asserts that Indigenous music is not relic but sovereign – resilient, defiant, and uncontainable.