Rolling Thunder (person)
Rolling Thunder | |
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| Born | John Pope September 10, 1916 Stamps, Arkansas, US |
| Died | January 23, 1997 (aged 80) Elko, Nevada, US |
| Citizenship | American |
| Known for | New Age spiritualist |
| Spouses | Spotted Fawn (died 1984)Carmen Sun Rising (after 1984) |
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Rolling Thunder aka John Pope (1916–1997) was a hippie spiritual leader who self-identified as a Native American medicine man. He was raised in Oklahoma and later moved to Nevada.
Rolling Thunder has been considered an example of a plastic medicine man, with little or no genuine connection to the culture or religion he claimed to represent or study. He is mentioned in a number of books on the New Age, 1960s counterculture, cultural appropriation, cultural imperialism, and neoshamanism.