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Hawk Littlejohn
Born
Larry Snyder[1][2]

1941[3]
Ohio[2]
DiedDecember 14, 2000(2000-12-14) (aged 58–59)[3]
Old Fort, North Carolina, U.S.[3]
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Flute maker, medicine man, adjunct professor
SpouseGeri Littlejohn[4]

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).[5]

In 1972 Littlejohn's official biography said he was born on a reservation in North Carolina.[6] The Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is actually a land trust rather than a reservation. An 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."[7]

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.[8] These included that Hawk Littlejohn was not Native American and was born in Akron, Ohio.[8]

Activism

In 1972, Littlejohn publicly opposed the flooding of historic Cherokee sites by the construction of the Tellico Dam.[6]

Consultancy and writing

The

Museum of the Cherokee Indian[9] in Cherokee, North Carolina
.

Littlejohn and his student David Winston led

Quaker gathering, that was held in Boone, North Carolina in 1988. George Price, a Quaker who went on to develop the Quaker Sweat ceremony,[10] described Littlejohn as "the last traditionally trained Eastern Cherokee medicine man."[11]

Personal

Littlejohn married a nurse from a Knoxville hospital.[8] Later he married Geri Littlejohn, who apprenticed with him learning to carve flutes.[4]

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

  1. ^ a b "Duncan v. Duncan". Casetext. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c 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.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Miller, Marcianne (24 January 2001). "A prayer for Hawk LittleJohn". Mountain Xpress. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Geri Littlejohn, Season 3". A Craftsman's Legacy. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Garnette A. Snyder". Chillicothe Gazette. January 26, 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  6. ^ a b Wheeler and McDonald, TVA and the Tellico Dam, p. 152.
  7. ^
    JSTOR 40932061
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  8. ^ a b c Wheeler and McDonald, TVA and the Tellico Dam, p. 153.
  9. ISBN 9780806161464
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  10. ^ Aldred, Benjamin Gratham. "'Quaker Sweat' as Intangible Heritage". International Journal of Intangible Heritage. 6: 72–83. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  11. ^ Price, George (1 February 2002). "The Quaker Sweat Lodge". Friends Journal. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  12. International Native American Flute Association. Archived from the original on 2006-03-03. Retrieved 2010-08-13. And: National Museum of the American Indian. Archived September 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

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