OIT Rocks Native Style at Red Earth Pow Wow After Party

OIT at the Red Earth Pow Wow After Party at Bora Bora on June 1 & 2 - Oklahoma City, OK

Old Indian Trick [OIT] is one of the few all Native rock bands around the country with its present members from the Kiowa, Creek, Choctaw, Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Nations. OIT members are all thirty-seven years and older, all have families and careers going on outside their music commitments to the band. They rarely have time to practice but have been together so long, that knowing one another’s strengths has been the key in making the band last.

Jamming across Oklahoma since 2001, OIT influences span from heavy metal, 80’s rock, country, R & B to a blend of their own Native contemporary rock style, which includes several of their own tracks written by OIT bass player, Terrell Tanequodle.

“Drums of War,” a Native honor rock song was written by Tanequodle while he watched the Iraq war on TV. “It reminded me of the Indians long ago, how they got sick and tired of fighting, just to live and breathe. What they went through just to sit to be with their family. They had to fight to do things we could not imagine having to do. The frustrations that came from defending themselves and their families all the time. My family means everything to me and it shows in my lyrics,” he explained as he spoke quietly.

Drummer, Mike Lamebull, who is self taught on the drums, never had a music lesson in his life, says that the band is something that he always wanted to do and OIT is a big dream come true for him and Terrell. And in the future they are looking forward to hitting the studio and releasing their first full length CD of original tunes.

OIT knows that keeping a band together is a joint effort and is like five people being married to each other. But they make things work by meeting at a common ground for their love of music and for the thrill and pride of being in an all Native rock band. “We want to show that Indians are still here and we do anything just like anyone one else,”Tanequodle said proudly.

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