Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Release: 1999-01-01
·Runtime: 65m
Music
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Perry Films
Cast
Robbie Robertson
as Self - Mohawk/Cayuga
Rita Coolidge
as Self - Cherokee
John Trudell
as Self - Santee Sioux
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
as Self - Sioux
Derek Miller
as Self - Six Nations musician
Buffy Sainte-Marie
as Self - Cree (archive footage)
Leonard Peltier
as Self - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage)
Dennis Banks
as Self - AIM leader (archive footage)
Cree Summer
as Self
