A young full-blood who has through great talent and efforts gained international fame for his traditional flute music is my good friend and Cherokee brother, Tommy Wildcat of Park Hill, Oklahoma. Tommy has appeared in numerous television specials and movies including: The Discovery Channel's Native American Series, "How the West was Lost"(The Trail of Tears); Schlegendger's production of The Cherokee People; Greystone's The Trail of Tears; AETN's The Cherokee People; TNT World Premiere of Tecumseh, The Last Warrior; and special credits in Lee Johnson's The Trail of Tears, A World Symphony Orchestra Platinum Entertainment Records, and Tom Richard's The Real Outdoors on The Nashville Network.

Producer, coordinator, historical lecturer, artist and flute maker by profession.

Actual River Cane Flute: When the earliest Europeans came across the Cherokee people living in the Great Smoky Mountains, it is said that flute players came out  of the Cherokee villages to meet them playing harmonic tunes to soothe their ears. Today, Tommy Wildcat continues this tradition using the same type of flutes used by the ancients. Each flute is personally handmade by Tommy using river cane (bamboo) gathered by his family along the Illinois River in his native Oklahoma.