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

ALL 01/01/1999 (en) Music, Documentary 65 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1999
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

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.

  1. Dana Heinz Perry

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Dana Heinz Perry

    Producer



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  1. Robbie Robertson

    Self - Mohawk/Cayuga

  2. Rita Coolidge

    Self - Cherokee

  3. John Trudell

    Self - Santee Sioux

  4. Benito Concha

    Self - Benito Concha (archive footage)

  5. Sharon Burch

    Self - Navaho (archive footage)

  6. Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

    Self - Sioux

  7. Herb Myke

    Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

  8. Doug Myke

    Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

  9. Elaine Bomberry

    Self - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations

  10. Derek Miller

    Self - Six Nations musician

  11. Ulali

    Selves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)

  12. Joanne Shenandoah

    Self Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee

  13. Johnny Myke

    Self - Payute

  14. Verdell Primeaux

    Self - Navaho

  15. Carlton H. Hoahwah

    Self - Comanche

  16. Mark G. Wauahdooah

    Self - Comanche

  17. Professor Cornel Pewewardy

    Self - Comanche

  18. Buffy Sainte-Marie

    Self - Cree (archive footage)

  19. Leonard Peltier

    Self - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage)

  20. Bonnie Jo Hunt

    Self - Dakota Sioux

  21. Dennis Banks

    Self - AIM leader (archive footage)

  22. Cree Summer

    Self

  23. Jacky Bird

    Self - Hidatsa/Dakota Sioux

  24. Chief Arnie General

    Self - Onondaga, Six Nations Reservation

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 24 , Crews : 5

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Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson (1999) 65 Min

ALL 01/01/1999 (en)
Music, Documentary
  • Release 01/01/1999
  • Production
  • Original title Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Dana Heinz Perry

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Dana Heinz Perry

    Editor

  4. Dana Heinz Perry

    Producer