Some deaths are harder to take than others.
The deaths of those who, for whatever reasons, seem a little larger than life itself. Those who are the stuff of legends. A native of these mountains and a member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, Hawk Littlejohn, from the beginning, was an original, unique in his sensitivity and his concern for his fellow man. Early on he was identified by elders of the Cherokee tribe as a potential medicine person and spiritual leader. Trained in the Cherokee medicine tradition chiefly by his grandfather, Hawk became skilled in the traditional methods of natural and psychological healing.