
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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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
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