📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available:
📆 Date Released:
1999-01-01
⌚ Running Time:
65 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
0.0
Beloved Cast
Self - Mohawk/Cayuga
Robbie Robertson
Self - Cherokee
Rita Coolidge
Self - Santee Sioux
John Trudell
Self - Benito Concha (archive footage)
Benito Concha
Self - Navaho (archive footage)
Sharon Burch
Self - Sioux
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
Herb Myke
Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
Doug Myke
Self - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations
Elaine Bomberry
Self - Six Nations musician
Derek Miller
Selves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)
Ulali
Self Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee
Joanne Shenandoah
Self - Payute
Johnny Myke
Self - Navaho
Verdell Primeaux
Self - Comanche
Carlton H. Hoahwah
Self - Comanche
Mark G. Wauahdooah
Self - Comanche
Professor Cornel Pewewardy
Self - Cree (archive footage)
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Self - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage)
Leonard Peltier
Self - Dakota Sioux
Bonnie Jo Hunt
Self - AIM leader (archive footage)
Dennis Banks
Self
Cree Summer
Self - Hidatsa/Dakota Sioux
Jacky Bird
Self - Onondaga, Six Nations Reservation
Chief Arnie General
