Today Mary is talking to Dr Joseph Bruchac, proud Nulhegan Abeneki citizen and respected elder of his tribe. For over forty years Joseph Bruchac has been creating literature and music that reflects his indigenous heritage and traditions. He is the author of more than 170 books for children and adults. His best selling Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children series, with its remarkable integration of science and folklore, continues to receive critical acclaim and to be used in classrooms throughout the USA.

Joseph attended Cornell University from 1960 to 1965, initially majoring in Wildlife Conservation and then switching his major to English, earning a B.A. in English with a minor in Zoology.

He attended Syracuse University from 1965-66 on a Creative Writing fellowship and graduated with a Master’s degree in English with a creative writing thesis.

He also did 3 years of postgraduate study at SUNY Albany, then transferred to the Union Institute of Ohio where he earned his Ph.D.

He has 2 honorary Doctorates — from SUNY Potsdam and Wheelock College (which is now a part of Boston University)

His work has won many honours
His book Jim Thorpes bright path won the Carter Woodson Book award, he holds among many others a Rockefeller humanities fellowship, the Cherokee nation prose award and the storyteller and writer of the year awards from the wordcraft circle of native writers and storytellers

Contact Dr Joseph Bruchac at
nudatlog@earthlink.net

Visit his website at
https://www.josephbruchac.com/

Contact Mary at
mary@burrennaturesanctuary.ie

Recommended books:

Keepers of the Earth
By: Dr Joseph Bruchac

Joseph Bruchac's newest book:
A Peacemaker for Warring Nations:The Founding of the Iroquois League
With illustrations by Daniel Kanietakeron Fadden

Our Inner Ape
By: Dr Frans De Wall

Fabres book of Insects
By: Jean Henri Fabre

Autumn Across America
By: Edwin Way Teale

A People's Ecology
By: Gregory Cajete

Recommended author: Roger Tory Peterson

Link to Choctaw Feather sculpture famine memorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred_Spirits_(sculpture)

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