Hawk Littlejohn
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Hawk Littlejohn (1941 – December 14, 2000)[3] was an American musician and carver of Native American flutes.
He worked as an adjunct professor in Social and Administrative Medicine from 1982 to 1983 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [1]
Background
Hawk Littlejohn's given name was Larry Snyder,[1] and he was born in Ohio[2] in 1941.[3] His mother was Garnette A. Snyder (1918–1998) from Milledgeville, Ohio, and his father was Lawrence H. Snyder (died 1993).[4]
In 1972 Littlejohn's official biography said he was born on a reservation in North Carolina.[5] The Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is actually a land trust rather than a reservation. A 1975 essay that Littlejohn wrote for the Appalachian Journal states that "Hawk Littlejohn was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Western Band of Cherokees."[6]
The Tennessee Valley Authority requested that the FBI investigate Littlejohn's background. The FBI did not confirm or deny this investigation, but the investigation was widely leaked and fueled many rumors.[7] These included that Hawk Littlejohn was not Native American and was born in Akron, Ohio.[7]
Activism
In 1972, Littlejohn publicly opposed the flooding of historic Cherokee sites by the construction of the Tellico Dam.[5]
Consultancy and writing
The Smithsonian Institution and the North Carolina Museum of History both consulted with him.[3] He published a column "Good Medicine" in the Katuah Journal.[3] He published an essay "The Reawakening of the Cherokees" in the Appalachian Journal in 1975.[6] Littlejohn was a friend and advisor to Barbara Duncan, the education director of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian[8] in Cherokee, North Carolina.
Littlejohn and his student David Winston led sweat lodge ceremonies for the Friends General Conference, a Quaker gathering, that was held in Boone, North Carolina in 1988. George Price, a Quaker who went on to develop the Quaker Sweat ceremony,[9] described Littlejohn as "the last traditionally trained Eastern Cherokee medicine man."[10]
Personal
Littlejohn married a nurse from a Knoxville hospital.[7] Later he married Geri Littlejohn, who apprenticed with him learning to carve flutes.[11]
Films
- Songkeepers (1999, 48 min.). Directed by Bob Hercules and Bob Jackson. Produced by Dan King. Lake Forest, Illinois: America's Flute Productions. Five distinguished traditional flute artists - Tom Mauchahty-Ware, Sonny Nevaquaya, R. Carlos Nakai, Hawk Littlejohn, Kevin Locke – talk about their instrument and their songs and the role of the flute and its music in their tribes.[12]
Death
At the time of his death, Littlejohn was living in Old Fort, North Carolina.
See also
Notes
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Duncan v. Duncan". Casetext. Archived from the original on May 3, 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gilmer, Robert A. (May 2011). "In the Shadow of Removal: Historical Memory, Indianness, and the Tellico Dam Project". University of Minnesota. p. 166. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Miller, Marcianne (24 January 2001). "A prayer for Hawk LittleJohn". Mountain Xpress. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Garnette A. Snyder". Chillicothe Gazette. January 26, 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ a b Wheeler and McDonald, TVA and the Tellico Dam, p. 152.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Littlejohn, Hawk (Summer 1975). "The Reawakening of the Cherokees". Appalachian Journal. 2 (4): 276–79. JSTOR 40932061.
- ^ a b c Wheeler and McDonald, TVA and the Tellico Dam, p. 153.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weiser, Kimberly G. (2017). Back to the Blanket. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 49. ISBN 9780806161464.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Aldred, Benjamin Gratham. "'Quaker Sweat' as Intangible Heritage". International Journal of Intangible Heritage. 6: 72–83. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Price, George (1 February 2002). "The Quaker Sweat Lodge". Friends Journal. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Geri Littlejohn, Season 3". A Craftsman's Legacy. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Joyce-Grendahl, Kathleen. "Songkeepers: A Video Review". worldflutes.org. Suffolk: International Native American Flute Association. Archived from the original on 2006-03-03. Retrieved 2010-08-13. And: National Museum of the American Indian. Script error: No such module "webarchive".
References
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wheeler, William Bruce; McDonald, Michael J. (2004). TVA and the Tellico Dam: A Bureaucratic Crisis. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9781572333703.
