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Countless strands of thread gather\nshimmering under the falling day star,\na magic.

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-rivers","title":"The Rivers","summary":"Countless strands of thread gather\nshimmering under the falling day star,\na magic.","date_modified":"2026-10-09T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/an-abenaki-drinking-song","html_content":"

Nidobassis, kagwi padawian?\nNdobiga nothebazi potoya.\nKowanodana

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/an-abenaki-drinking-song","title":"An Abenaki Drinking Song","summary":"Nidobassis, kagwi padawian?\nNdobiga nothebazi potoya.\nKowanodana","date_modified":"2026-10-09T01:05:19Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/ancient-voices-in-devils-den","html_content":"

A small stream begins its journey in the Adirondack foothills near Corinth, flowing southeast from its source near Johnstown. It winds its way through the landscape, eventually joining the Mohawk River near Fort Johnson,...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/ancient-voices-in-devils-den","title":"Ancient Voices in Devil's Den","summary":"A small stream begins its journey in the Adirondack foothills near Corinth, flowing southeast from its source near Johnstown. It winds its way through the landscape, eventually joining the Mohawk River near Fort Johnson,...","date_modified":"2026-10-08T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/captain-dunham%E2%80%99s-capture-of-five-men-a-saratoga-report-from-1781","html_content":"

A newly located clipping from The Connecticut Courant, and the Weekly Intelligencer, published in Hartford on Tuesday, October 9, 1781, adds a contemporary newspaper account to the story of Hezekiah Dunham’s capture of t...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/captain-dunham%E2%80%99s-capture-of-five-men-a-saratoga-report-from-1781","title":"Captain Dunham’s Capture of Lovelace: A 1781 Newspaper Report","summary":"A newly located clipping from The Connecticut Courant, and the Weekly Intelligencer, published in Hartford on Tuesday, October 9, 1781, adds a contemporary newspaper account to the story of Hezekiah Dunham’s capture of t...","date_modified":"2026-10-08T02:55:12Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/still-here-annaatje-annatie-storm-1701%E2%80%931785","html_content":"

Our research follows several connections between our family and the descendants of Catoneras, a Native woman of Long Island whose son, Jan Cornelissen Van Texel, or Van Tassel, established the family from which these bra...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/still-here-annaatje-annatie-storm-1701%E2%80%931785","title":"Our Family’s Connections to Catoneras","summary":"Our research follows several connections between our family and the descendants of Catoneras, a Native woman of Long Island whose son, Jan Cornelissen Van Texel, or Van Tassel, established the family from which these bra...","date_modified":"2026-10-07T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/into-the-cedar-river","html_content":"

I cast my line\ninto the Cedar River,\nwatched it pull out of sight\nas Adirondack rain began to fall\nand thunder walked\nover Panther Mountain.

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The Pequawket, also recorded as Pigwacket, were an Abenaki people whose homeland centered on the upper Saco River valley of present-day western Maine and eastern New Hampshire. Their principal village lay near modern Fry...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-pequawket-abenaki","title":"The Pequawket: Homeland, Survival, and Enduring Connections","summary":"The Pequawket, also recorded as Pigwacket, were an Abenaki people whose homeland centered on the upper Saco River valley of present-day western Maine and eastern New Hampshire. Their principal village lay near modern Fry...","date_modified":"2026-10-06T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/still-here-deep-roots-and-living-kinship-in-the-northeast","html_content":"

Our family’s connection to the Northeast reaches across generations, through Indigenous ancestry, extended kinship, and a continuing relationship with the places we call home. From Long Island and the lower Hudson to the...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/still-here-deep-roots-and-living-kinship-in-the-northeast","title":"Still Here: Deep Roots and Living Kinship in the Northeast","summary":"Our family’s connection to the Northeast reaches across generations, through Indigenous ancestry, extended kinship, and a continuing relationship with the places we call home. From Long Island and the lower Hudson to the...","date_modified":"2026-10-05T23:34:20Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-seven-thunders-of-pitawbagok-lake-champlain","html_content":"

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After Tabaldak, literally One that brings measure or balance—some say it was Gluskonba, One made by speech—had traveled around for some time, they began to notice that something was still missing from the world. Language...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/creator-makes-the-people","title":"Creator Makes the People (Abenaki)","summary":"After Tabaldak, literally One that brings measure or balance—some say it was Gluskonba, One made by speech—had traveled around for some time, they began to notice that something was still missing from the world. Language...","date_modified":"2026-10-05T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/keewakwee","html_content":"

Long ago, a boy lived alone in a cave in the forest with someone who said that she was his older sister. However, she always sat with her back to him, and she kept her long, tangled black hair brushed over her face so th...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/keewakwee","title":"Keewahkwee (Abenaki)","summary":"Long ago, a boy lived alone in a cave in the forest with someone who said that she was his older sister. However, she always sat with her back to him, and she kept her long, tangled black hair brushed over her face so th...","date_modified":"2026-10-04T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/a-new-find-from-the-family-archive-saratoga%E2%80%99s-indian-encampments","html_content":"

A newly rediscovered nineteenth-century Saratoga guidebook adds an important piece to our continuing study of the Indigenous community of Saratoga Springs and its connections to the Adirondacks.

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/a-new-find-from-the-family-archive-saratoga%E2%80%99s-indian-encampments","title":"A New Find from the Family Archive: Saratoga’s Indian Encampments","summary":"A newly rediscovered nineteenth-century Saratoga guidebook adds an important piece to our continuing study of the Indigenous community of Saratoga Springs and its connections to the Adirondacks.","date_modified":"2026-10-04T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/saratoga%E2%80%99s-notable-names-from-joseph-bruchac-to-matt-riddle","html_content":"

Saratoga’s history reaches far beyond its famous springs and racetrack. A feature by Brian Kachejian in Classic New York History highlights 25 notable people connected to Saratoga Springs through birth, childhood, reside...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/saratoga%E2%80%99s-notable-names-from-joseph-bruchac-to-matt-riddle","title":"Saratoga’s Notable Names: From Joseph Bruchac to Matt Riddle","summary":"Saratoga’s history reaches far beyond its famous springs and racetrack. A feature by Brian Kachejian in Classic New York History highlights 25 notable people connected to Saratoga Springs through birth, childhood, reside...","date_modified":"2026-10-04T01:37:51Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/exploring-the-name-ots-toch","html_content":"

Our ancestor, the Mohawk woman remembered as Ots-Toch, holds an important place in our family’s Mohawk–Dutch heritage through her children with Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyck. Yet the name by which we remember her has not...

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At the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, an iron gate bearing the name STORMS offers a quiet reminder of a family whose history reaches into our own. For many visitors, Sleepy Hollow immediately brings to mind Washingto...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/sleepy-hollow-where-history-family-and-homeland-meet","title":"The Storm Family of Sleepy Hollow: A Name on an Old Iron Gate","summary":"At the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, an iron gate bearing the name STORMS offers a quiet reminder of a family whose history reaches into our own. For many visitors, Sleepy Hollow immediately brings to mind Washingto...","date_modified":"2026-10-03T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/saratoga%E2%80%99s-springs-in-1886-page-27","html_content":"

This 1886 guide, preserved in the Bowman-Bruchac family archive, offers a vivid window into the springs at the heart of Saratoga’s history. Its descriptions record how the waters were presented to visitors, served in pav...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/saratoga%E2%80%99s-springs-in-1886-page-27","title":"Saratoga’s Springs in 1886: Page 27","summary":"This 1886 guide, preserved in the Bowman-Bruchac family archive, offers a vivid window into the springs at the heart of Saratoga’s history. Its descriptions record how the waters were presented to visitors, served in pav...","date_modified":"2026-10-03T05:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/storytelling-open-mic-featuring-jesse-bruchac","html_content":"

Jesse Bowman Bruchac is an author, traditional storyteller and language teacher from the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Vermont.  For three decades Jesse has been immersed in Algo...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/storytelling-open-mic-featuring-jesse-bruchac","title":"Storytelling Open Mic Featuring Jesse Bruchac","summary":"Jesse Bowman Bruchac is an author, traditional storyteller and language teacher from the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Vermont.  For three decades Jesse has been immersed in Algo...","date_modified":"2026-10-03T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/between-sides","html_content":"

"Revolutionary Lives: Between Sides: Revolution, Family & Indigenous Networks on the Saratoga Frontier

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Among the women whose lives remain only partly visible in the records of the upper Hudson Valley is Maria (Mary) Van Den Bergh, also remembered as Maria Berg, whose approximate dates are 1765–1851. Her story belongs to t...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/still-here-maria-berg-1765%E2%80%931851","title":"Still Here: Maria Berg (1765–1851)","summary":"Among the women whose lives remain only partly visible in the records of the upper Hudson Valley is Maria (Mary) Van Den Bergh, also remembered as Maria Berg, whose approximate dates are 1765–1851. Her story belongs to t...","date_modified":"2026-10-02T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-first-abenaki-on-the-saint-francis-river","html_content":"

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-first-abenaki-on-the-saint-francis-river","title":"The First Abenaki on the Saint Francis River (Abenaki)","date_modified":"2026-10-01T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/tatodatee-the-bedels-and-the-abenaki-borderlands","html_content":"

The unfolding histories of Tatodatee Camber and our Bedel family of Upper Coös lead through overlapping parts of the northern borderlands: the Connecticut River valley, Bradford and Strafford, the Memphremagog basin, and...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/tatodatee-the-bedels-and-the-abenaki-borderlands","title":"Tatodatee, the Bedels, and the Abenaki Borderlands","summary":"The unfolding histories of Tatodatee Camber and our Bedel family of Upper Coös lead through overlapping parts of the northern borderlands: the Connecticut River valley, Bradford and Strafford, the Memphremagog basin, and...","date_modified":"2026-10-01T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/this-land-is-our-land","html_content":"

Pete Seeger opened the festival each year with the Seneca Canoe Song, which both Pete and our family learned from Ray Tenhanetorens Fadden, the founder of the Six Nations Museum, honored as an Elder and Teacher by genera...

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Discover the Art of Remembering with Jesse Bruchac with this incredible FREE lecture-style workshop at Pitney Meadows Community Farm!

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Generations of searching for our family’s deeply hidden Indigenous roots in Ndakinna have taught us to keep asking questions, follow evidence carefully, and remain open to correction. This article shares some of those le...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/beyond-the-record-reading-the-hidden-history-of-ndakinna","title":"Beyond the Record: Reading the Hidden History of Ndakinna","summary":"Generations of searching for our family’s deeply hidden Indigenous roots in Ndakinna have taught us to keep asking questions, follow evidence carefully, and remain open to correction. This article shares some of those le...","date_modified":"2026-09-30T00:34:13Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/from-the-family-archive-%E2%80%9Cin-milan%E2%80%9D-1978","html_content":"

While going through the family archive, Joseph Bruchac recently rediscovered this small poetry postcard from 1978, saved from what he remembers simply as his “1978 trip to Italy.”

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Compiled by Jesse Bowman and James Edward Bruchac

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Compiled by Jesse Bowman and James Edward Bruchac

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Before the cowboy rode west, the voyageur paddled west. Before the railroad, there was the canoe. Before the highway, there was the river.

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-voyageurs-before-the-highway-the-river","title":"The Voyageurs: Before the Highway, the River","summary":"Before the cowboy rode west, the voyageur paddled west. Before the railroad, there was the canoe. Before the highway, there was the river.","date_modified":"2026-09-28T00:31:27Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/all-that-well-be","html_content":"

poem by Jesse Bowman Bruchac, Tagôgowiwi 2026

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Joseph Bruchac’s picture book The Hunter’s Promise: An Abenaki Tale (Wisdom Tales, 2015), illustrated by Bill Farnsworth, brings forward a traditional Northeastern Indigenous story about loyalty, memory, and the sacred r...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-hunter%E2%80%99s-promise-%E2%80%94-an-abenaki-tale","title":"The Hunter’s Promise — An Abenaki Tale","summary":"Joseph Bruchac’s picture book The Hunter’s Promise: An Abenaki Tale (Wisdom Tales, 2015), illustrated by Bill Farnsworth, brings forward a traditional Northeastern Indigenous story about loyalty, memory, and the sacred r...","date_modified":"2026-09-27T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/telling-stories","html_content":"

It is more than fifteen years now since I first began telling stories. Though I had heard stories since childhood, it was not until our own sons were born that I began telling them to others. A few years later, Elaine Gi...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/telling-stories","title":"Telling Stories","summary":"It is more than fifteen years now since I first began telling stories. Though I had heard stories since childhood, it was not until our own sons were born that I began telling them to others. A few years later, Elaine Gi...","date_modified":"2026-09-25T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/generations-a-living-archive","html_content":"

For the past three years, we have been developing Generations into a living archive bringing together more than sixty years of writing, storytelling, poetry, music, family history, and research, with some of the records ...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/generations-a-living-archive","title":"Generations: A Living Archive","summary":"For the past three years, we have been developing Generations into a living archive bringing together more than sixty years of writing, storytelling, poetry, music, family history, and research, with some of the records ...","date_modified":"2026-09-24T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/adirondack-logging-camp-dictionary","html_content":"

This post acts as a companion guide to many of our Adirondack posts, specifically The Adirondack Loggers Alphabet and An Adirondack Storyteller; below is a brief list of some of the terms commonly used in the Adirondack ...

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The Town of Greenfield was created on March 12, 1793, twenty-six years before the Town of Saratoga Springs was created on April 9, 1819. But the community that became Greenfield was already taking shape well before 1793,...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-founding-families-of-greenfield-new-york","title":"The Founding Families of Greenfield, New York","summary":"The Town of Greenfield was created on March 12, 1793, twenty-six years before the Town of Saratoga Springs was created on April 9, 1819. But the community that became Greenfield was already taking shape well before 1793,...","date_modified":"2026-09-24T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/nulhegan-autumn-news","html_content":"

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/nulhegan-autumn-news","title":"Nulhegan Autumn News","date_modified":"2026-09-24T03:10:10Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/when-the-bootleg-trail-came-through-saratoga","html_content":"

Prohibition, Gangsters, the Adirondack Liquor Route, and Our Dunham Family

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/when-the-bootleg-trail-came-through-saratoga","title":"When the Bootleg Trail Came Through Saratoga","summary":"Prohibition, Gangsters, the Adirondack Liquor Route, and Our Dunham Family","date_modified":"2026-09-23T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/at-the-end-of-ridge-road","html_content":"

Published 22 years ago in 2004, At the End of Ridge Road is a book that remains close to my heart. And the cabin up here is still where I live, write, and am inspired by the messages of the seasons.

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On June 22, 1797, just fourteen years after the Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolution, the Aurora General Advertiser published a warning against rushing into another war. Reflecting on the struggle for...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/war-war-war-%E2%80%94-an-18th-century-warning-worth-reading-again","title":"\"WAR! WAR! WAR!\" — An 18th-Century Warning Worth Reading Again","summary":"On June 22, 1797, just fourteen years after the Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolution, the Aurora General Advertiser published a warning against rushing into another war. Reflecting on the struggle for...","date_modified":"2026-09-23T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-meeting-tree-of-schaghticoke","html_content":"

In 1989, a gathering took place at the site of the ancient oak tree that had been planted to mark the establishment of Schaghticoke, which might rightly be called the first Native American reservation. It was the bicente...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-meeting-tree-of-schaghticoke","title":"The Meeting Tree of Schaghticoke","summary":"In 1989, a gathering took place at the site of the ancient oak tree that had been planted to mark the establishment of Schaghticoke, which might rightly be called the first Native American reservation. It was the bicente...","date_modified":"2026-09-23T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/fourth-harvest","html_content":"

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/fourth-harvest","title":"Fourth Harvest","date_modified":"2026-09-23T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-gift-of-stories-the-gift-of-breath","html_content":"

"Where do stories come from, Grampa?"

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My father was a taxidermist and also a hunter. But he showed respect throughout his life for the animals whose lives he took or whose heads were mounted into trophies. Although his ancestry was European, his ways of look...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/good-minds","title":"Good Minds","summary":"My father was a taxidermist and also a hunter. But he showed respect throughout his life for the animals whose lives he took or whose heads were mounted into trophies. Although his ancestry was European, his ways of look...","date_modified":"2026-09-23T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/hoop-games","html_content":"

Ring and Pin

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/hoop-games","title":"Hoop Games","summary":"Ring and Pin","date_modified":"2026-09-23T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/poetry-from-the-land-september-25th-free-event","html_content":"

🖋️ Join us at Pitney Meadows Community Farm for the FINAL OFFERING of “Explore to Learn: Poetry from the Land,” a FREE series poetry writing series led by acclaimed author, storyteller, educator, citizen, and elder of t...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/poetry-from-the-land-september-25th-free-event","title":"Poetry from the Land, September 25th (Final Poetry Series Event)","summary":"🖋️ Join us at Pitney Meadows Community Farm for the FINAL OFFERING of “Explore to Learn: Poetry from the Land,” a FREE series poetry writing series led by acclaimed author, storyteller, educator, citizen, and elder of t...","date_modified":"2026-09-22T18:47:40Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/bird-names-in-abenaki","html_content":"

Featuring Cecile Wawanolet and Jesse Bowman Bruchac. Recorded at Odanak, PQ in 1994. For more information about learning to speak Abenaki, visit Abenaki Online.

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There once was a boy whose parents had died. He lived with his uncle who did not treat him well. The uncle dressed the boy in rags and because of this the boy was called Dirty Clothes.

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Presented to the Rotary Club at Fo’Castle Farm, Burnt Hills, New York, September 22, 2026

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Compiled by Jesse Bowman and James Edward Bruchac

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The Poetry Reading that Sparked It

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Long before anyone calls it training, children learn by playing. They run, wrestle, hide, chase one another, throw things at targets, test their balance, imitate adults, cooperate, compete, and discover how their bodies ...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/native-american-martial-arts-chapter-four-learning-through-play","title":"Native American Martial Arts, Chapter Four—Learning Through Play","summary":"Long before anyone calls it training, children learn by playing. They run, wrestle, hide, chase one another, throw things at targets, test their balance, imitate adults, cooperate, compete, and discover how their bodies ...","date_modified":"2026-09-21T04:01:00Z"}]}