Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson (1999)
January 1, 1999
Music, Documentary
1h 5m
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 & Crew
- Director
- Dana Heinz Perry
- Self - Mohawk/Cayuga Robbie Robertson
- Self - Cherokee Rita Coolidge
- Self - Santee Sioux John Trudell
- Self - Sioux Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
- Self - Six Nations musician Derek Miller
- Self - Cree (archive footage) Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Self - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage) Leonard Peltier
- Self - AIM leader (archive footage) Dennis Banks
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Keywords
- boarding school
- peyote
- ghost dance
- wounded knee massacre