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Walker Calhoun (born May 13, 1918; died March 28, 2012)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Final Notes, Walker Calhoun )〕 was a Cherokee musician, dancer, and teacher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NEA National Heritage Fellowships )〕 He was known as a medicine man and spiritual leader who worked to preserve the history, religion, and herbal healing methods of his people.〔Broadfoot, Jan. "Twentieth-Century Tar Heels," Broadfoot's of Wendell, 2004.〕 Calhoun was the youngest of 12 children born to Sally Ann Calhoun and Morgan Calhoun.〔 His father died when Calhoun was nine.〔 At the age of 12, Calhoun attended a boarding school in Cherokee, North Carolina, where he learned the English language.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indian Country Diaries . History . Oral History of the Cherokee )〕 Before that time, he had rarely heard English since his mother did not speak it.〔Moose, Debbie. "Telling the Tales of Time." The News and Observer (North Carolina ) 28 June 1992.〕 During World War II, he was drafted and served as a combat engineer in Germany.〔 Calhoun started learning Cherokee songs from an early age. He had learned most of the social, hunt, and sacred songs from his uncle, Will West Long, by the time he was nine years old.〔 ==Awards received== :1988 - Sequoyah Award, awarded to the person who has done the most to preserve and teach Cherokee culture.〔 :1990 - North Carolina Folk Heritage Award :1992 - National Endowment for the Arts's National Heritage Fellowship 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walker Calhoun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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