Hawk LittleJohn Memorial Scholarship and the SongKeepers Video
With the assistance of Richard Dubé of Northern Spirit Flutes, INAFA is creating a scholarship in the name of Hawk LittleJohn (1941-2000), a profound Cherokee flute maker, scholar in Native American medicines and traditions, environmentalist, educator, and a cultural consultant to the Smithsonian Institute and the North Carolina Museum of History.
Richard Dubé has reworked and remastered the SongKeepers DVD that features Hawk LittleJohn, Kevin Locke, R. Carlos Nakai, Tom Mauchahty-Ware, Dr. Richard W. Payne, and Sonny Nevaquaya. Richard is offering the DVD through his website. SongKeepers 2010 includes the original SongKeepers movie from 1999 plus eight teacher-edits (all videos under 10 minutes in length) put together for use by educators.
For each SongKeepers purchase from the Northern Spirit Flutes website, Richard will donate 10 percent of the proceeds to INAFA’s Hawk LittleJohn Memorial Scholarship. The monies generated will be used to support Hawk's vision of sharing the beauty of the Native American flute with the rest of the world, so that people can gain an appreciation and an understanding of First Nations people and their culture(s). Richard has started the scholarship fund with a personal donation of $100.
Independent donations are also welcome and can be made out to: INAFA, 3351 Mintonville Point Drive, Suffolk, VA 23435 or via Paypal to account: INAFA@AOL.COM. Please specify in your donation that it is for the Hawk LittleJohn Memorial Scholarship.
To purchase the SongKeepers DVD with 10 percent of the proceeds benefiting the Hawk LittleJohn Memorial Scholarship, please visit: www.northernspiritflutes.net