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

Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson (1999)


  • Genre: Music, Documentary
  • Release Date: 1999-01-01
  • Runtime: 1h 5min
  • Director: Dana Heinz Perry

Summary

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.

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  • Robbie Robertson

    as Self - Mohawk/Cayuga

  • Rita Coolidge

    as Self - Cherokee

  • John Trudell

    as Self - Santee Sioux

  • Benito Concha

    as Self - Benito Concha (archive footage)

  • Sharon Burch

    as Self - Navaho (archive footage)

  • Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

    as Self - Sioux

  • Herb Myke

    as Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

  • Doug Myke

    as Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

  • Elaine Bomberry

    as Self - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations

  • Derek Miller

    as Self - Six Nations musician

  • Ulali

    as Selves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)

  • Joanne Shenandoah

    as Self Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee

  • Johnny Myke

    as Self - Payute

  • Verdell Primeaux

    as Self - Navaho

  • Carlton H. Hoahwah

    as Self - Comanche

  • Mark G. Wauahdooah

    as Self - Comanche

  • Professor Cornel Pewewardy

    as Self - Comanche

  • Buffy Sainte-Marie

    as Self - Cree (archive footage)

  • Leonard Peltier

    as Self - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage)

  • Bonnie Jo Hunt

    as Self - Dakota Sioux

  • Dennis Banks

    as Self - AIM leader (archive footage)

  • Cree Summer

    as Self

  • Jacky Bird

    as Self - Hidatsa/Dakota Sioux

  • Chief Arnie General

    as Self - Onondaga, Six Nations Reservation
Directing Dana Heinz Perry Director
Production Dana Heinz Perry Producer
Editing Dana Heinz Perry Editor
Camera Hart Perry Director of Photography
Production Sara Keller Associate Producer

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