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.
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
