
Film
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
1999 · 1h 5m
Music, Documentary
TMDB 7.0 · 1 votes
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 RobertsonSelf - Mohawk/Cayuga
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
Derek MillerSelf - Six Nations musician- UlaliSelves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)
- Joanne ShenandoahSelf Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee