Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac or Sozap, his Abenaki name, is an award-winning poet, novelist, and storyteller, who follows the traditional ways. His work reflects his culture in emphasing that storytelling is natural and necessary to all people. He has been a storyteller-in-residence at the Onondaga Indian School and the Akwesasne Mohawk School.
For over thirty years Joseph Bruchac has been creating poetry, short stories, novels, anthologies and music that reflect his Abenaki Indian heritage and Native American traditions.
He is the author of more than 120 books for children and adults. The best selling Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children and others of his “Keepers” series, with its remarkable integration of science and folklore, continue to receive critical acclaim and to be used in classrooms throughout the country.
Joseph lives in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood, those Native roots are the ones by which he has been most nourished.
Books by Joseph
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Keepers of the Night : Native Stories and Nocturnal Activities for Children
Author Michael Caduto & Joseph Bruchac Illustrated by David Kanietakeron Fadden
$14.95 ISBN: 9781895618396 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 1994-03-15 -
Buffalo Song
Author Joseph Bruchac Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth
$25.95 ISBN: 9781584302803 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2009-06-04 -
Jim Thorpe's Bright Path
Author Joseph Bruchac Illustrated by S. D. Nelson
$17.95 ISBN: 9781600603402 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2009-08-28 -
Wolf Mark
Author Joseph Bruchac
$23.95 ISBN: 9781600606618 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2011-09-16 -
Killer of Enemies
Author Joseph Bruchac
$26.95 ISBN: 9781620141434 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2013-10-09 -
Trail of the Dead
Author Joseph Bruchac
$26.95 ISBN: 9781620142615 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2015-09-22 -
Arrow of Lightning
Author Joseph Bruchac
$26.95 ISBN: 9781620143308 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2017-06-29 -
The Story of All-Star Athlete Jim Thorpe
Author Joseph Bruchac Illustrated by S.D. Nelson
$11.95 ISBN: 9781643790107 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publication Date: 2019-11-15