He, his younger sister Margaret, and his two grown sons, James and Jesse, continue to work extensively in projects involving the preservation of Abenaki culture, language and traditional Native skills at their Ndakinna Education Center. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry, which is part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood. The author of over 120 books for children and adults, his titles include JIM THORPE, ORIGINAL ALL-AMERICAN, OUR STORIES REMEMBER (Fulcrum), and MARCH TOWARD THE THUNDER (Dial).īruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and Storyteller of the Year from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, his work has appeared in hundreds of publications from American Poetry Review to National Geographic. Joseph Bruchac is a traditional storyteller and writer whose work often reflects his Abenaki Indian ancestry and his lifelong interest in American Indian history and culture.
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