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

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.

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The cast

Robbie Robertson Self - Mohawk/Cayuga

Rita Coolidge Self - Cherokee

John Trudell Self - Santee Sioux

B

Benito Concha Self - Benito Concha (archive footage)

S

Sharon Burch Self - Navaho (archive footage)

Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman Self - Sioux

H

Herb Myke Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

D

Doug Myke Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

E

Elaine Bomberry Self - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations

Derek Miller Self - Six Nations musician

U

Ulali Selves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)

J

Joanne Shenandoah Self Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee

J

Johnny Myke Self - Payute

V

Verdell Primeaux Self - Navaho

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