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Joseph Bruchac (born October 16, 1942) is an American writer and storyteller based in New York.. He writes about Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American lives and folklore.
Joseph Bruchac: Hidden Roots: Winner 2008 Best Picture Book: Tim Tingle (author) with Jeanne Rorex Bridges (illustrator) Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom: Winner Best Middle School Book: Joseph Medicine Crow: Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond: Winner Best Young Adult Book: Sherman Alexie
The Reverend Samson Occom, Mohegan, 1723–1792, [1] thought to be the first Native American to publish in English. This is a list of notable writers who are Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
James and Joseph Bruchac Matt Dembicki James and Joseph Bruchac of the Abenaki peoples share a story about crayfish—how they have eyes on stalks and why they are not prideful. Trickster and the Great Chief: David Smith Jerry Carr David "Tim" Smith of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska shares a story about how owls became the guardians of the dead.
In the 1980s, the prolific Abenaki author Joseph Bruchac began writing his books for children. In 1985, The Wind Eagle and Other Abenaki Stories was published. It was followed by picture books, traditional retellings, historical and contemporary fiction, and biography and autobiographical works.
Books for younger readers both have historical settings: Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door (1998) (grades 4–6) is set in 1777; and Beth Kanell's young adult novel, The Darkness Under the Water (2008), concerns a young Abenaki-French Canadian girl during the time of the Vermont Eugenics Project, 1931–1936.
Gerald Robert Vizenor (born 1934) is an American writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation.Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Native American Studies.
Duane Niatum (McGinniss) is a Native American poet, author and playwright from the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in the northern Olympic Peninsula of the state of Washington. . Niatum's work draws inspiration from all aspects of life ranging from nature, art, Native American history and humans rig