Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson

1h 5m

Music Documentary

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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 Robertson

Self - Mohawk/Cayuga

Self - Cherokee

Self - Santee Sioux

Self - Benito Concha (archive footage)

Self - Navaho (archive footage)

Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

Elaine Bomberry

Self - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations

Self - Six Nations musician

Selves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)

Joanne Shenandoah

Self Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee

Verdell Primeaux

Carlton H. Hoahwah

Self - Comanche

Mark G. Wauahdooah

Self - Comanche

Professor Cornel Pewewardy

Self - Comanche

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Self - Cree (archive footage)

Leonard Peltier

Self - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage)

Self - Dakota Sioux

Self - AIM leader (archive footage)

Self - Hidatsa/Dakota Sioux

Chief Arnie General

Self - Onondaga, Six Nations Reservation

Crew

Dana Heinz Perry

Director, Editor, Producer

Director of Photography

Associate Producer