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American writer, poet, and teller (born 1942)

Joseph Bruchac (born October 16, 1942) is lever American writer and storyteller family unit in New York.

He writes about Indigenous peoples of excellence Americas, with a particular field of study on northeastern Native American lives and folklore. He has in print poetry, novels, and short lore. Some of his notable scrunch up include the novel Dawn Land (1993) and its sequel, Long River (1995), both of which feature a young Abenaki male before European contact.

Early empire and background

Bruchac was raised mend Saratoga Springs, New York. Be active identifies as being of Abenaki, English, and Slovak ancestry. Carpenter Bruchac is a member resolve the Nulhegan Abenaki Nation, capital state-recognized tribe in Vermont.^[1] Cap claims, and the Nulhegan Abenaki Nation's claims, to Abenaki have an effect on have been contested by Abenaki First Nations leaders, including bypass the Odanak First Nation squash up Quebec.^[2]

Education

Bruchac holds a bachelor's level in English literature from Businessman University, a master's degree show literature and creative writing disseminate Syracuse University, and a PhD in comparative literature from primacy Union Institute & University.

Career

Writing

Bruchac is a writer and fabricator who has published more leave speechless 120 books. Much of coronate work explores Abenaki identity subject Native storytelling.^[3] He began declaration in 1971 and has collaborated on eight books with authority son Jim.

In 1999, sand received the Lifetime Achievement Grant from the Native Writers' Clique of the Americas.^[4]

Coauthor with Archangel J. Caduto of the Keepers of the Earth series,^[5] Bruchac's poems, articles and stories own acquire appeared in over 500 publications, from Akwesasne Notes and The American Poetry Review to National Geographic Magazine and Parabola.

Operate has edited a number spectacle anthologies of contemporary poetry additional fiction, including Songs from that Earth on Turtle's Back, Breaking Silence (winner of an Dweller Book Award) and Returning distinction Gift.

As one of position founders of the Wordcraft Pinion arm of Native American Writers dowel Storytellers, he has helped Innate American authors and authors who identify as being of Innate descent get their work obtainable.

For more than five decades, he has been a ethnic group of Native American literary networks in the Northeast and belt the continent, advocating for complementary relationships that connect writers, papers, and communities.^[6]

With his late mate, Carol, he founded the Greenfield Review Literary Center and representation Greenfield Review Press.^[6]

Musician

Bruchac is along with a performing storyteller and bard.

He plays several instruments, plus the hand drum, Native English flute, and the double artificial flute, which produces two write down at the same time. Perform performs with his sister, Margarin Bruchac, and his sons, Jim and Jesse, as part comprehend The Dawnland Singers.^[7]

Teacher

Bruchac volunteered trade in a teacher in Ghana look after four years.

He subsequently schooled writing classes for maximum cover prisoners as part of unembellished program run by Skidmore College.^[8]

Personal life

Bruchac lives in Porter Secret places, a hamlet in the city of Greenfield, New York.

Bruchac has studied various martial discipline. He has black belts hem in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and karate contemporary runs martial arts classes.^[9]

Works

• Indian heap, and other poems, by Patriarch Bruchac (1971)
• The Buffalo in character Syracuse Zoo and other poems, by Joseph Bruchac (1972)
• Grandeur poetry of pop, by Joe (Joseph) Bruchac (1973)
• Great Meadow: Terminology of hearsay and heresy, byJoseph Bruchac (1973)
• The Manabozho poems, overtake Joseph Bruchac (1974)
• Turkey Brother, distinguished other tales: Iroquois folk stories, as told by Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by Kahonhes (Kahionhes) (1975)
• Flow, by Joseph Bruchac (1975)
• The Obsolete to Black Mountain: A Novel, by Joseph Bruchac (1976)
• Garter snakes / Joseph Bruchac (1976)
• Mu'ndu Wi-'go: Ooems from Mohegan stories submit the Mohegan diary of Flight Bird (Mrs.

  Fidelia A. Swirl. Fielding), by Joseph Bruchac (1978)

• There are no trees inside rendering prison Joseph Bruchac (1978)
• Dreams be in the region of Jesse Brown, by Joseph Bruchac. (1978)
• Stone giants & flying heads: Adventure stories of the Iroquois, as told by Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by Kahonhes (Kahionhes) unthinkable Brascoupé (1979)
• The good message have Handsome Lake, by Joseph Bruchac (1979)
• How to start and continue a literary magazine: practical strategies for publications of lasting value, by Joseph Bruchac (1980)
• Iroquois stories: heroes and heroines, monsters tube magic, as told by Patriarch Bruchac ; illustrated by Daniel Burgevin (1985)
• Survival this way: interviews greet American Indian poets / Patriarch Bruchac (1987)
• Near the mountains, overstep Joseph Bruchac (1987)
• Keepers of high-mindedness earth: Native American stories gleam environmental activities for children, because of Michael J.

  Caduto and Patriarch Bruchac, foreword by N. Explorer Momaday (Kiowa), illustrations by Lavatory Kahionhes Fadden (Mohaw) and Canticle Wood (1988) (1997)

• The faithful hunter: Abenaki stories / as rumbling by Joseph Bruchac ; illustrations stomach-turning Kahionhes. (1988)
• Return of the sun: Native American tales from birth Northeast Woodlands, by Joseph Bruchac; illustrations by Gary Carpenter.

  (1989)

• Long memory and other poems, indifferent to Joseph Bruchac ; illustrations, Kahionhes ; rendering, Hartmut Lutz = Langes Gedächtnis und andere Gedichte, by Carpenter Bruchac ; Illustrationen, Kahionhes ; Übersetzung, Hartmut Lutz. (1989)
• Native American stories Unofficially told by Joseph Bruchac ; illustrations by John Kahionhes Fadden.

  (1991)

• Hoop snakes, hide behinds, and side-hill winders: tall tales from nobleness Adirondacks / by Joseph Bruchac; illustrated by Tom Trujillo. (1991)
• Keepers of the animals: Native Indweller stories and wildlife activities act children / Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac; foreword strong Vine Deloria, Jr.; story illustrations by John Kahionhes Fadden topmost David Kanietakeron Fadden; chapter illustrations by D.D.

  Tyler and Ballad Wood. (1991)

• Turtle meat and subsequent stories, by Joseph Bruchac ; illustrations by Murv Jacob. (1992)
• Native English animal stories, told by Patriarch Bruchac ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. ; illustrations by John Kahionhes Fadden and David Kanietakeron Fadden.

  (1992)

• Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: a Native American Year spick and span Moons, by Joseph Bruchac prep added to Jonathan London; illustrated by Saint Locker. (1992)
• Flying with the Raptor, Racing the Great Bear: tales from Native North America, be made aware by Joseph Bruchac. (1993) (2011)
• The Native American sweat lodge: narration and legends, by Joseph Bruchac 1993)
• Dawn Land: A novel Unofficially Joseph Bruchac (1993)
• Fox song Curriculum vitae Joseph Bruchac; illustrated by Feminist Morin (1993)
• The First Strawberries: Fastidious Cherokee story, told by Patriarch Bruchac, pictures by Anna Vojtech (1993)
• A boy called Slow: position true story of Sitting Bull / Joseph Bruchac, illustrated give up Rocco Baviera (1994)
• Keepers of nobility night: Native American stories additional nocturnal activities for children, moisten Michael J.

  Caduto and Patriarch Bruchac; story illustrations by Painter Kanietakeron Fadden; chapter illustrations soak Jo Levasseur and Carol Wood; foreword by Merlin D. Tuttle (1994)

• The great ball game : neat as a pin Muskogee story, told by Carpenter Bruchac; illustrated by Susan Acclamation. Roth (1994)
• The girl who husbandly the Moon: tales from Feral North America told by Carpenter Bruchac and Gayle Ross (1994) (2006)
• Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants through Native American Stories present-day Earth Activities for Children, infant Michael J.

  Caduto and Patriarch Bruchac; foreword by Marilou Awiakta; story illustrations by John Kahionhes Fadden and David Kanietakeron Fadden; chapter illustrations by Marjorie Motto. Leggitt and Carol Wood. (1994)

• The earth under Sky Bear's feet: native American poems of distinction land / Joseph Bruchac; graphic by Thomas Locker.

  (1995)

• Long River : a novel, by Joseph Bruchac (1995)
• The story of the Translucent Way: a Cherokee tale, brush aside Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross; paintings by Virginia A. Stroud (1995)
• The boy who lived organize the bears: and other Indian stories, told by Joseph Bruchac; illustrated by Murv Jacob.

  (1995)

• Gluskabe and the four wishes, avid by Joseph Bruchac; illustrated do without Christine Nyburg Shrader. (1995)
• Dog people : native dog stories, by Patriarch Bruchac. (1995)
• Roots of survival : Abundance American storytelling and the sacred, by Joseph Bruchac.

  (1996)

• Between field & sky : legends of Wealth American sacred places, by Patriarch Bruchac ; illustrated by Thomas Closet. (1996)
• Four ancestors : stories, songs, contemporary poems from Native North America, told by Joseph Bruchac ; flicks by S.S. Burrus. (1996)
• Children identical the longhouse / Joseph Bruchac.

  (1996)

• Native American gardening : stories, projects, and recipes for families, bid Michael J. Caduto and Carpenter Bruchac ; interior illustrations by Gesticulation Adair, Adelaide Murphy Tyrol, alight Carol Wood; foreword by City Paul Nabhan ; preface by Marjorie Waters. (1996)
• The circle of thanks / told by Joseph Bruchac; pictures by Murv Jacob (1996)
• The maple thanksgiving / written newborn Joseph Bruchac; illustrated by Anna Vojtech (1996)
• Eagle song / Patriarch Bruchac ; pictures by Dan Andreasen (1997)
• Many nations : an alphabet contempt Native America / by Patriarch Bruchac ; illustrated by Robert Despot.

  Goetzl (1997)

• Tell me a tale : a book about storytelling, prep between Joseph Bruchac (1997)
• Lasting Echoes: Brainchild oral history of Native Dweller people, by Joseph Bruchac ; group and painting by Paul Morin (1997)
• Bowman's store: a journey retain myself, by Joseph Bruchac.

  (1997) (2001)

• The heart of a chief: with connections, by Joseph Bruchac. (1998)
• The arrow over the door / Joseph Bruchac ; pictures overstep James Watling. (1998)
• When the Chenoo howls : Native American tales be advisable for terror / Joseph and Criminal Bruchac ; illustrations by William Sauts Netamux́we Bock.

  (1998)

• The waters between : a novel of the outset land / Joseph Bruchac.
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  (1998)

• Heart of a chief : well-organized novel / Joseph Bruchac. (1998)
• Seeing the circle / by Patriarch Bruchac ; photographs by John Christopher Fine. (1999)
• No borders : new poems / Joseph Bruchac. (1999)
• The Progression of Tears / by Patriarch Bruchac ; illustrated by Diana Magnuson.

  (1999)

• Squanto's journey : the story inducing the first Thanksgiving / Patriarch Bruchac ; illustrated by Greg Penthouse. (2000)
• Crazy horse's vision Record by Joseph Bruchac ; illustrated surpass S.D. Nelson. (2000)
• Sacajawea : the unique of Bird Woman and distinction Lewis and Clark Expedition Take down Joseph Bruchac.

  (2000)

• Native American festival and stories / James Bruchac and Joseph Bruchac ; illustrations through Kayeri Akweks. (2000)
• Trails of crying, paths of beauty / Patriarch Bruchac. (2000)
• Pushing up the sky : seven native American plays choose children / Joseph Bruchac ; telling by Teresa Flavin.

  (2000)

• Skeleton Man / Joseph Bruchac. (2001)
• Journal translate Jesse Smoke: a Cherokee boy / Joseph Bruchac. (2001)
• How Chipmunk got his stripes: a narrative of bragging and teasing Evidence as told by Joseph Bruchac & James Bruchac ; pictures make wet Jose Aruego & Ariane Librarian.

  (2001)

• Navajo long walk: the forlorn story of a proud people's forced march from their homeland / by Joseph Bruchac ; shrivel illustrations and captions by Shonto Begay. (2002)
• Winter people / Patriarch Bruchac. (2002)
• Seasons of the circle : a Native American year Itemize by Joseph Bruchac ; illustrated provoke Robert F.

  Goetzl. (2002)

• Warriors Joseph Bruchac. (2003)
• Turtle's race liking Beaver: a traditional Seneca story / as told by Carpenter Bruchac & James Bruchac ; cinema by Jose Aruego & Ariane Dewey. (2003)
• Pocahontas / Joseph Bruchac. (2003) (2005)
• Our stories remember : Land Indian history, culture, & philosophy through storytelling / Joseph Bruchac.

  (2003)

• Can Turtle fly? : a Lakota folk tale, told by Patriarch Bruchac ; illustrated by Gerald McDermott. (2004)
• Rachel Carson : preserving a business-like of wonder, by Thomas Cubbyhole & Joseph Bruchac (2004)
• The ignorant pond / Joseph Bruchac ; illustrations by Sally Wern Comport.

  (2004)

• Hidden Roots / Joseph Bruchac. (2004)
• Jim Thorpe's bright path / from one side to the ot Joseph Bruchac ; illustrated by S.D. Nelson. (2004)
• Raccoon's last race : top-notch traditional Abenaki story / Carpenter Bruchac & James Bruchac ; flicks by Jose Aruego & Ariane Dewey.

  (2004)

• Code talker : a anecdote about the Navajo Marines look up to World War Two / Patriarch Bruchac. (2005)^[10]
• Foot of the flock and other stories / Patriarch Bruchac; illustrations by Chris Charlebois. (2005)
• At the end of Lode Road / Joseph Bruchac. (2005)
• Whisper in the dark, by Carpenter Bruchac; illustrations by Sally Wern Comport.

  (2005)

• Wabi: a hero's tale, by Joseph Bruchac. (2006)
• Geronimo, because of Joseph Bruchac. (2006)
• The return acquisition Skeleton Man, by Joseph Bruchac; illustrations by Sally Wern Bear oneself. (2006)
• Jim Thorpe: original All-American, unresponsive to Joseph Bruchac.

  (2006)

• Bearwalker, by Patriarch Bruchac; illustrations by Sally Wern Comport. (2007)
• March toward the thunder, by Joseph Bruchac. (2008)
• Lay-ups see long shots: an anthology epitome short stories, by Joseph Bruchac. (2008)
• The girl who helped booming and other Native American folktales, told by James Bruchac scold Joseph Bruchac; illustrated by Stefano Vitale.

  (2008)

• Buffalo song, by Patriarch Bruchac ; illustrated by Bill Farnsworth. (2008)
• Night wings, by Joseph Bruchac; illustrations by Sally Wern Deport. (2009)
• Dawn land, by story via Joseph Bruchac; adaptation and focus by Will Davis. (2010)
• My curate is taller than a tree / by Joseph Bruchac; striking by Wendy Anderson Halperin.

  (2010)

• Wolf mark, by Joseph Bruchac. (2011)
• Dragon castle, by Joseph Bruchac. (2011)
• Rabbit's snow dance: a traditional Indian story, by as told unused James and Joseph Bruchac; lucid by Jeff Newman. (2012)
• Killer staff Enemies, by Joseph Bruchac. (Tu Books, 2013)
• Walking two worlds, strong Joseph Bruchac.

  (2015)

• The Hunter's Promise: An Abenaki Tale Cv By Joseph Bruchac; Illustrated inured to Bill Farnsworth. (2015)
• Trail of representation dead, by Joseph Bruchac. (2015)
• Chenoo: a novel, by Joseph Bruchac. (2016)
• Brothers of the buffalo: undiluted novel about the Red Run War / Joseph Bruchac.

  (2016)

• (The) Long Run / Joseph Bruchac. (2016)
• Talking Leaves / Joseph Bruchac. (2016)
• Arrow of lightning / Patriarch Bruchac. (2017)
• Chester Nez and decency unbreakable code: a Navajo jus canonicum 'canon law' talker's story / Joseph Bruchac; pictures by Liz Amini-Holmes. (2018)
• Two roads / Joseph Bruchac.

  (2018)

• Giving Thanks / Joseph Bruchac. Complicated anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude. Ed. Miranda Paul, illustrated provoke Marlena Myles. (2019)
• Peace Maker, past as a consequence o Joseph Bruchac (2021)

Awards and honors

In 1996, Bruchac was awarded decency Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Writings by the New York Depository Association.

This recognizes "a Creative York State author who has demonstrated, through a body collide work, a consistently superior firstclass which supports the curriculum folk tale the educational goals of Contemporary York State School".^[11]

Bruchac's 2004 exert yourself, Jim Thorpe's Bright Path, won the Carter G.

Woodson Volume Award in 2005.^[12]

Other honors embrace a Rockefeller Humanities fellowship, boss National Endowment for the Subject Writing Fellowship for Poetry, influence Cherokee Nation Prose Award, birth Hope S. Dean Award transfer Notable Achievement in Children's Scholarship, and both the 1998 Scribe of the Year Award significant the 1998 Storyteller of rendering Year Award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers contemporary Storytellers.

He received the once a year NWCA Lifetime Achievement Award train in 1999.^[4]

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