Quotes from Joseph Bruchac

I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.

Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by the same Pacific Ocean they saw with such joy.

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.