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.
Runtime duration
Language
EN
Year
1999
Rating
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0 votes • HD
People
Self - Mohawk/Cayuga
Self - Cherokee
Self - Santee Sioux
Self - Benito Concha (archive footage)
Self - Navaho (archive footage)
Self - Sioux
Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations
Self - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations
Self - Six Nations musician
Selves - Indigenous women’s group (archive footage)
Self Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee
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