13 Facts About Jesse Bruchac

Jesse Bowman Bruchac was born on 1972 and is an author and language teacher from the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Vermont.

Jesse Bruchac has dedicated much of his life to studying the Abenaki language and preserving the Abenaki culture.

Jesse Bruchac is an active martial artist, skilled in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, isshin-ryu, pentjak silat, and taekwondo.

Jesse Bruchac has worked extensively with the Abenaki language and taught other Eastern Algonquian languages including the Lenni Lenape languages Munsee and Unami; Mohegan-Pequot, and Passamaquoddy.

Jesse Bruchac has worked in a short film by Alanis Obomsawin, When All the Leaves Are Gone.

Jesse Bruchac was a translator for the AMC hit show Turn: Washington's Spies.

Jesse Bruchac is a member of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Vermont.

Jesse Bruchac studied at Goddard College in Plainfield, VT, where he was primarily interested in creating a syllabus for teaching the Abenaki language.

Since then, Jesse Bruchac has dedicated his life to the preservation and revitalization of the Abenaki language and culture.

Jesse Bruchac began teaching conversational Abenaki first at the high school level, and then through the Abenaki Tribal Museum and Cultural Center, until he moved onto other projects in 1999.

Jesse Bruchac has competed as a part of the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation, and from these tournaments has brought home five gold medals.

Jesse Bruchac appeared in several episodes of a public access television program called Story By Story, which aired out of Proctor's Theater.

In July and August 2011, Jesse Bruchac presented at the Adirondack Center for Writing's Native American Writers Series, which celebrates a diverse set of writers, including but not limited to the Abenaki and Mohawk nations.