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    A Study Guide for Joseph Bruchac's "Birdfoot's Grandpa"
    A Study Guide for Joseph Bruchac's "Birdfoot's Grandpa"
    A Study Guide for Joseph Bruchac's "Birdfoot's Grandpa"
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    A Study Guide for Joseph Bruchac's "Birdfoot's Grandpa"

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    A Study Guide for Joseph Bruchac's "Birdfoot's Grandpa," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535819497
    A Study Guide for Joseph Bruchac's "Birdfoot's Grandpa"

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      Birdfoot's Grampa

      Joseph Bruchac

      1978

      Introduction

      Joseph Bruchac first published Birdfoot's Grampa in 1978 in the collection Entering Onandaga, published by Cold Mountain Press. It is currently available in the collection Translator's Son, published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 1994.

      In a 1996 interview with Meredith Ricker published by the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), Bruchac stated that the poem came out of his experience traveling with an elderly Pueblo Apache storyteller named Swift Eagle. One night we were late for a storytelling program I was supposed to give and Swifty kept making me stop so he could pick up … toads. Bruchac said the old man's insistence on saving them, described in the poem, was like a lightbulb going off: The poem really is about being stupid and having your eyes opened by an elder.

      Bruchac's life work has been bringing Native American stories and wisdom to as many audiences as possible. His vibrant oral storytelling has made him a popular speaker in schools, and the many children's books he has published have made him a familiar figure to many young people. Of mixed Abenaki and Slovakian heritage, Bruchac prefers the French-Canadian term for mixed-blood peoples, metis, because as he explains in his essay Translator's Son, metis means that you are able to understand the language of both sides, to help them understand each other. This process of cross-cultural translation has been Bruchac's life work, and he has taken it to schoolchildren, prisoners, college students, and audiences all over North America.

      Author Biography

      Bruchac was born on October 16, 1942, in Saratoga Springs, New York. At a young age he went to live with his maternal grandparents, Jesse and Marion Dunham Bowman. They had a little general store where Bruchac helped out. His grandmother had a law degree from the Albany Law School, and although she never practiced law, she made sure the house was full of books. His grandfather, who was of Abenaki descent, could hardly read or write, but was, Bruchac wrote in a biographical piece for Scholastic.com, "one of the kindest

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