
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Music
Documentary
Lenguage:65 min
Duration:en
Release date:Jan 1, 1999
Calificacion:0.0
Description:
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

Rita CoolidgeSelf - Cherokee

John TrudellSelf - Santee Sioux
Benito ConchaSelf - Benito Concha (archive footage)
Sharon BurchSelf - Navaho (archive footage)

Floyd "Red Crow" WestermanSelf - Sioux
Herb MykeSelf - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
Doug MykeSelf - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
Elaine BomberrySelf - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations
UlaliSelves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)
Joanne ShenandoahSelf Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee