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

★ 7/10 · 1 votes 1999 1h 5m Released

MusicDocumentary

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 Rita Coolidge Self - Cherokee John Trudell Self - Santee Sioux B Benito Concha Self - Benito Concha (arch S Sharon Burch Self - Navaho (archive foo Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman Self - Sioux