Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
1999This 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.
Acted in
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