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


Movie


Geners : MusicDocumentary

Rate : Not Rated

Status : Released

Language : en

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Release :1999-01-01

RunTime :65 mins

Story :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

posterRobbie RobertsonSelf - Mohawk/Cayuga
posterRita CoolidgeSelf - Cherokee
posterJohn TrudellSelf - Santee Sioux
posterBenito ConchaSelf - Benito Concha (archive footage)
posterSharon BurchSelf - Navaho (archive footage)
posterFloyd "Red Crow" WestermanSelf - Sioux
posterHerb MykeSelf - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
posterDoug MykeSelf - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
posterElaine BomberrySelf - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations
posterDerek MillerSelf - Six Nations musician
posterUlaliSelves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)
posterJoanne ShenandoahSelf Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee
posterJohnny MykeSelf - Payute
posterVerdell PrimeauxSelf - Navaho
posterCarlton H. HoahwahSelf - Comanche
posterMark G. WauahdooahSelf - Comanche
posterProfessor Cornel PewewardySelf - Comanche
posterBuffy Sainte-MarieSelf - Cree (archive footage)
posterLeonard PeltierSelf - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage)
posterBonnie Jo HuntSelf - Dakota Sioux
posterDennis BanksSelf - AIM leader (archive footage)
posterCree SummerSelf
posterJacky BirdSelf - Hidatsa/Dakota Sioux
posterChief Arnie GeneralSelf - Onondaga, Six Nations Reservation