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\"Writing poetry is sometimes like starting a car on ice. At first you might just spin your wheels and not go anywhere. But if your foot is light on the gas pedal you may begin to move forward a little bit at a time, pick...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/william-staffords-typewriter","title":"William Stafford's Typewriter","summary":"\"Writing poetry is sometimes like starting a car on ice. At first you might just spin your wheels and not go anywhere. But if your foot is light on the gas pedal you may begin to move forward a little bit at a time, pick...","date_modified":"2026-09-18T04:01:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/cupping-hands","html_content":"

poem by Jesse Bowman Bruchac

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/cupping-hands","title":"Cupping Hands","summary":"poem by Jesse Bowman Bruchac","date_modified":"2026-09-18T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/hollyhocks","html_content":"

My grandmother's garden was edged with hollyhocks.

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/hollyhocks","title":"Hollyhocks","summary":"My grandmother's garden was edged with hollyhocks.","date_modified":"2026-09-18T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/van-olinda-line","html_content":"

Compiled by Jesse Bowman and James Edward Bruchac

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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":"2026-09-18T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/degory-priest-1579-1621","html_content":"

Complied by Jesse Bowman Bruchac

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We’ve been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to make Generations easier to explore.

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At the tender age of twelve years, Joseph E. Bruchac successfully passed a test to become a commercial taxidermist thereby receiving his license. In the 1920's he was undoubtedly the youngest licensed Taxidermist in the ...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/mounted-by-bruchac","title":"Mounted By Bruchac","summary":"At the tender age of twelve years, Joseph E. Bruchac successfully passed a test to become a commercial taxidermist thereby receiving his license. In the 1920's he was undoubtedly the youngest licensed Taxidermist in the ...","date_modified":"2026-09-17T04:01:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/long-lost-friend","html_content":"

Here is an interesting sidelight about a book called The Long Lost Friend, later widely published as Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend, which Don Bowman often mentions in The Witch of Mad Dog Hill.

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While it is sadly now almost entirely forgotten—even among many Native families living in New York, New England, and Canada today—and as we have been sharing throughout our posts over the last three years, Schaghticoke s...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/schaghticoke-one-of-early-america%E2%80%99s-great-indigenous-crossroads","title":"Schaghticoke: One of Early America’s Great Indigenous Crossroads","summary":"While it is sadly now almost entirely forgotten—even among many Native families living in New York, New England, and Canada today—and as we have been sharing throughout our posts over the last three years, Schaghticoke s...","date_modified":"2026-09-17T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/a-work-in-progress","html_content":"

You'll notice a lot of changes to the website. We are working to make it more user-friendly and accessible, creating clearer pathways through the growing Generations archive, improving navigation between related stories,...

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For generations, paper mills helped build communities across the Northeast. They provided jobs, supported families, and shaped entire towns along our rivers. Many of our own relatives worked in and around the paper indus...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/papermill-memories","title":"Papermill Memories","summary":"For generations, paper mills helped build communities across the Northeast. They provided jobs, supported families, and shaped entire towns along our rivers. Many of our own relatives worked in and around the paper indus...","date_modified":"2026-09-17T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/two-roads-%E2%80%94-bonus-army-veterans-homelessness-and-hidden-roots","html_content":"

In 2018, Joseph Bruchac published Two Roads, a historical novel for young readers that brings together several histories Americans too often learn separately: the Great Depression, homelessness, the Bonus Army of World W...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/two-roads-%E2%80%94-bonus-army-veterans-homelessness-and-hidden-roots","title":"Two Roads — Bonus Army, Veterans, Homelessness, and Hidden Roots","summary":"In 2018, Joseph Bruchac published Two Roads, a historical novel for young readers that brings together several histories Americans too often learn separately: the Great Depression, homelessness, the Bonus Army of World W...","date_modified":"2026-09-17T00:37:50Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/why-our-barney-pedigree-has-to-stop-here","html_content":"

Three Jonathan Barneys, a Conflated Pedigree, and Why Mary Barber Cannot Yet Be Called Our Direct Ancestor

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From the American Revolution to the Republic of Indian Stream

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/colonel-timothy-bedel-and-the-abenaki-1779","title":"Colonel Timothy Bedel, the Abenaki, and the Northern Borderlands","summary":"From the American Revolution to the Republic of Indian Stream","date_modified":"2026-09-16T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/all-right-some-memories-of-william-stafford","html_content":"

In my opinion, there are a few who have the deceptive depth that William Stafford so often exhibits in his poems— with such ease.

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BY MARTHA STODDARD\nLincoln Journal Star

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The following short documentary film, Ndakinna: This Place, Our Homeland, draws attention to the marginalized Indigenous Abenaki people of Lebanon, New Hampshire. The recently implemented Land Acknowledgment offers an op...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/ndakinna-this-place-our-homeland-full-film-included","title":"Ndakinna: This Place, Our Homeland (Full Film Included)","summary":"The following short documentary film, Ndakinna: This Place, Our Homeland, draws attention to the marginalized Indigenous Abenaki people of Lebanon, New Hampshire. The recently implemented Land Acknowledgment offers an op...","date_modified":"2026-09-16T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/a-mountain-memory","html_content":"

On May 18, 1980, Mount Saint Helens erupted. In what remains the most deadly and economically devastating irruption in recorded US history, more than 57 people were killed.

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/a-mountain-memory","title":"A Mountain Memory","summary":"On May 18, 1980, Mount Saint Helens erupted. In what remains the most deadly and economically devastating irruption in recorded US history, more than 57 people were killed.","date_modified":"2026-09-16T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/poems-for-the-indian-steel-workers-iii","html_content":"

Driving home at night\nthrough the Onondaga Reservation\nheadlights strike empty white fields\n& tired houses with back broken roofs

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/poems-for-the-indian-steel-workers-iii","title":"Poem For The Indian Steel Workers III","summary":"Driving home at night\nthrough the Onondaga Reservation\nheadlights strike empty white fields\n& tired houses with back broken roofs","date_modified":"2026-09-16T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/generations-is-growing-%E2%80%94-explore-the-new-archive","html_content":"

A quick update from Generations:

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Is there enough narrative connection and musical strength to call it that? Opera itself has had a long and changing history. From the sixteenth-century pastoral play with its musical accompaniment, through Monteverdi (wh...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/but-is-it-opera-tommy-and-the-who","title":"But is it opera? Tommy and The Who","summary":"Is there enough narrative connection and musical strength to call it that? Opera itself has had a long and changing history. From the sixteenth-century pastoral play with its musical accompaniment, through Monteverdi (wh...","date_modified":"2026-09-15T04:03:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/a-19th-century-indigenous-history-of-johnsburg-new-york","html_content":"

Long before Johnsburg became a town, the upper Hudson–Lake George country formed part of an interconnected Indigenous landscape linking the Hudson Valley, Lake George and Lake Champlain, the Green Mountains and Connectic...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/a-19th-century-indigenous-history-of-johnsburg-new-york","title":"A 19th Century Indigenous History of Johnsburg, New York","summary":"Long before Johnsburg became a town, the upper Hudson–Lake George country formed part of an interconnected Indigenous landscape linking the Hudson Valley, Lake George and Lake Champlain, the Green Mountains and Connectic...","date_modified":"2026-09-15T04:01:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/origins-of-the-schaghticoke-mission","html_content":"

Compiled by Jesse Bowman and James Edward Bruchac

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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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Jacobus Van Den Bergh and Maria Van Antwerp belonged to the interconnected Dutch and Indigenous kinship networks of the upper Hudson and Mohawk Valleys during the first half of the eighteenth century.

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/jacobus-van-den-bergh-and-maria-van-antwerp-of-schaghticoke","title":"Jacobus Van Den Bergh and Maria Van Antwerp of Schaghticoke","summary":"Jacobus Van Den Bergh and Maria Van Antwerp belonged to the interconnected Dutch and Indigenous kinship networks of the upper Hudson and Mohawk Valleys during the first half of the eighteenth century.","date_modified":"2026-09-15T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/from-ash-tree-to-basket-%E2%80%94-preparing-for-the-ndakinna-harvest-fest","html_content":"

In preparation for the Ndakinna Harvest Festival this Saturday, September 19, we spoke with basket maker Kerry Wood, who will be joining us along with other gifted Native artisans, storytellers, language keepers, dancers...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/from-ash-tree-to-basket-%E2%80%94-preparing-for-the-ndakinna-harvest-fest","title":"From Ash Tree to Basket — Preparing for the Ndakinna Harvest Fest","summary":"In preparation for the Ndakinna Harvest Festival this Saturday, September 19, we spoke with basket maker Kerry Wood, who will be joining us along with other gifted Native artisans, storytellers, language keepers, dancers...","date_modified":"2026-09-14T05:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/from-the-revolution-to-the-civil-war-the-dunhams-of-saratoga","html_content":"

On June 21, 1924, The Glens Falls Times described our great-great-grandparents Edward H. Dunham and Flora Mann Dunham as belonging to “one of the oldest and most highly respected families in Saratoga county.” The remark ...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/from-the-revolution-to-the-civil-war-the-dunhams-of-saratoga","title":"From the Revolution to the Civil War: The Dunhams of Saratoga","summary":"On June 21, 1924, The Glens Falls Times described our great-great-grandparents Edward H. Dunham and Flora Mann Dunham as belonging to “one of the oldest and most highly respected families in Saratoga county.” The remark ...","date_modified":"2026-09-14T04:03:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/native-american-martial-arts-chapter-three-%E2%80%94-wrestling","html_content":"

We ended the last chapter with a question:

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One day Gluskonba came into his Grandmother's lodge.

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Looking out across the Saratoga plateau

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/looking-out","title":"Looking out","summary":"Looking out across the Saratoga plateau","date_modified":"2026-09-14T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/joanne-shenandoah-she-sings","html_content":"

At the September 2019 Saratoga Native American Festival in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs, New York, our featured performer was Joanne Shenandoah. When she took the stage in the historic Canfield Casino, accompanied b...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/joanne-shenandoah-she-sings","title":"Joanne Shenandoah: She Sings","summary":"At the September 2019 Saratoga Native American Festival in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs, New York, our featured performer was Joanne Shenandoah. When she took the stage in the historic Canfield Casino, accompanied b...","date_modified":"2026-09-14T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/we-must-now-sayno-more-or-perish","html_content":"

When John Donne said, \"No man is an island.\" he was stating what amounts to a very sound ecological truth; in addition to the universal brotherhood of man in the Holy Spirit, man himself is not separate from our world's ...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/we-must-now-sayno-more-or-perish","title":"We must say, \"No More!\"","summary":"When John Donne said, \"No man is an island.\" he was stating what amounts to a very sound ecological truth; in addition to the universal brotherhood of man in the Holy Spirit, man himself is not separate from our world's ...","date_modified":"2026-09-14T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-cole-line-and-the-land-how-our-ancestors-stood-their-ground","html_content":"

Compiled by Jesse Bowman Bruchac and James Edward Bruchac

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In the 1970s, the first traditional martial art my sons, Jesse and Jim, and I studied was Pentjak Silat, the Indonesian fighting art that had become an important part of our family's life. Our instructor was Ringo Vandei...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/selamat-salam-a-greeting-of-peace","title":"Selamat Salam: A Greeting of Peace","summary":"In the 1970s, the first traditional martial art my sons, Jesse and Jim, and I studied was Pentjak Silat, the Indonesian fighting art that had become an important part of our family's life. Our instructor was Ringo Vandei...","date_modified":"2026-09-13T04:01:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/headwaters","html_content":"

Far back in the woods\nthere is always the hint\nof something moving\nat the edge of your vision.

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By Aleli Balagtas\nStaff Writer

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Compiled by Jesse Bowman and James Edward Bruchac

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One day a flock of crows gathered in the forest. The life of a crow is not easy. To survive requires wisdom.

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Part I — Applying Gordon Day's Standard Equally

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/still-here-where-the-documents-end","title":"The Limits of the Archive","summary":"Part I — Applying Gordon Day's Standard Equally","date_modified":"2026-09-13T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/what-is-pentjak-silat","html_content":"

Animal Teachers

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Another important name in our family history is: Douw, more properly spelled Douwe in its original Frisian form.

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shared by Jesse Bowman Bruchac

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Cinderella is the story of a poor but honest girl who finds success. Cinderella stories are found all over the world, from Europe to China to the Americas. Some of these stories end with the heroine being rescued or marr...

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/the-wisdom-of-princess-maya","title":"The Wisdom of Princess Maya","summary":"Cinderella is the story of a poor but honest girl who finds success. Cinderella stories are found all over the world, from Europe to China to the Americas. Some of these stories end with the heroine being rescued or marr...","date_modified":"2026-09-12T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/birdfoots-grampa","html_content":"

The old man\nmust have stopped our car\ntwo dozen times to climb out\nand gather into his hands\nthe small toads blinded\nby our lights and leaping,\nlive drops of rain.

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/birdfoots-grampa","title":"Birdfoot's Grampa","summary":"The old man\nmust have stopped our car\ntwo dozen times to climb out\nand gather into his hands\nthe small toads blinded\nby our lights and leaping,\nlive drops of rain.","date_modified":"2026-09-12T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/poet-anne-bradstreet","html_content":"

Compiled by Jesse Bowman and James Edward Bruchac

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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":"2026-09-11T04:01:00Z"},{"id":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/did-one-dunham-brother-help-lead-another-to-thomas-lovelace","html_content":"

A Family Mystery Inside Saratoga’s Revolutionary Intelligence War

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Our Generations blog recently crossed a milestone we never imagined when we began sharing this work: our website dashboard has now recorded more than 1,056,000 site visitors.

","url":"https://joebruchac.com/blog/f/a-million-visits%E2%80%94and-an-important-word-of-caution","title":"A Million Visits—and an Important Word of Caution","summary":"Our Generations blog recently crossed a milestone we never imagined when we began sharing this work: our website dashboard has now recorded more than 1,056,000 site visitors.","date_modified":"2026-09-11T04:00:00Z"}]}