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Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Jan 01, 1999
1h 5m
Synopsis
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.
Title | Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson |
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Keywords | boarding school, peyote, ghost dance, wounded knee massacre |

Robbie Robertson
Self - Mohawk/Cayuga
Rita Coolidge
Self - Cherokee
John Trudell
Self - Santee SiouxBenito Concha
Self - Benito Concha (archive footage)Sharon Burch
Self - Navaho (archive footage)
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Self - SiouxHerb Myke
Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six NationsDoug Myke
Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six NationsElaine Bomberry
Self - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations
Derek Miller
Self - Six Nations musicianUlali
Selves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)Joanne Shenandoah
Self Oneida/Iriquois/HaudenosauneeJohnny Myke
Self - PayuteVerdell Primeaux
Self - NavahoCarlton H. Hoahwah
Self - ComancheMark G. Wauahdooah
Self - ComancheProfessor Cornel Pewewardy
Self - Comanche
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Self - Cree (archive footage)
Leonard Peltier
Self - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage)Bonnie Jo Hunt
Self - Dakota Sioux
Dennis Banks
Self - AIM leader (archive footage)