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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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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1999-01-01
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- timer Runtime: 65 Mins
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Robbie Robertson
Self - Mohawk/Cayuga

Rita Coolidge
Self - Cherokee

John Trudell
Self - Santee Sioux

Benito Concha
Self - Benito Concha (archive footage)

Sharon Burch
Self - Navaho (archive footage)

Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Self - Sioux

Herb Myke
Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

Doug Myke
Self - Robbie's cousin; Cayuga/Six Nations

Elaine Bomberry
Self - Ojibway/Cayuga/Six Nations

Derek Miller
Self - Six Nations musician

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

Joanne Shenandoah
Self Oneida/Iriquois/Haudenosaunee

Johnny Myke
Self - Payute

Verdell Primeaux
Self - Navaho

Carlton H. Hoahwah
Self - Comanche

Mark G. Wauahdooah
Self - Comanche

Professor Cornel Pewewardy
Self - Comanche

Buffy Sainte-Marie
Self - Cree (archive footage)

Leonard Peltier
Self - Anishanaabe/Dakota (archive footage)

Bonnie Jo Hunt
Self - Dakota Sioux

Dennis Banks
Self - AIM leader (archive footage)

Cree Summer
Self

Jacky Bird
Self - Hidatsa/Dakota Sioux

Chief Arnie General
Self - Onondaga, Six Nations Reservation
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