Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson (1999)

7.0/10 65 min Music Documentary

Overview

This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film follows him back to the Six Nations reservation in Ontario where he spent summers growing up and picked up his first guitar. The resulting album, "Contact From the Underworld of Red Boy", draws on his childhood First Nation influences and includes musical collaborations wth Native artists such as John Trudell, Rita Coolidge and Buffy Ste Marie.

Cast

Robbie Robertson

Self - Mohawk/Cayuga

Rita Coolidge

Self - Cherokee

John Trudell

Self - Santee Sioux

Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

Self - Sioux

Derek Miller

Self - Six Nations musician

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Self - Cree (archive footage)

Leonard Peltier

Self - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage)

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