In this podcast we bring this interview out of the Moccasin Tracks Archives recorded and broadcast after the publication of Killer Of Enemies in 2014.  Moccasin Tracks is syndicated on the Pacifica Radio Network and we invite you to rebroadcast as we produce this show weekly from the Ancestral Homeland of the Western Abenaki Peoples.  Community radio is all volunteer produced and we are currently at North Country Community Radio, WZNC at 99.9FM and online. 

This conversation with Respected and loved Nulhegan Abenaki Elder Joseph Bruchac is a reminder of the deep connection this Elder has for his culture and his deep relationship with storytelling.  We extend this gift for your listening pleasure and was prepared for radio rebroadcast. (www.nococommunityradio.org)https://www.goodreads.com"Years ago, seventeen-year-old Apache hunter Lozen and her family lived in a world of haves and have-nots. There were the Ones -- people so augmented with technology and genetic enhancements that they were barely human -- and there was everyone else who served them. Then the Cloud came, and everything changed. Tech stopped working. The world plunged back into a new steam age. The Ones' pets -- genetically engineered monsters -- turned on them and are now loose on the world.

Lozen was not one of the lucky ones pre-C, but fate has given her a unique set of survival skills and magical abilities. She hunts monsters for the Ones who survived the apocalyptic events of the Cloud, which ensures the safety of her kidnapped family. But with every monster she takes down, Lozen's powers grow, and she connects those powers to an ancient legend of her people. It soon becomes clear to Lozen that she is not just a hired gun. As the legendary Killer of Enemies was in the ancient days of the Apache people, Lozen is meant to be a more than a hunter. Lozen is meant to be a hero."www.joebruchac.com

A citizen of the Nulhegan Abenaki Nation, Joseph Bruchac has authored over 170 books in numerous genres and his poems, fiction, and essays have appeared in hundreds of publications from American Poetry Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Parabola, and National Geographic to Junior Scholastic and Highlights for Children. His ground-breaking book Keepers of the Earth (co-authored with Michael Caduto), which uses traditional Native American stories to teach about science, has sold over a million copies and been adopted in schools throughout the United States and Canada.  from Fulcrum Books

Music Credits:from Canyon Records, Traditional Navaho Songs recorded in the 1950’s; Queen of the Coast by Jake Shoffer, Putumayo Cafe Du Monde and Amy Martina, Koi Nahi Mere from Putumayo Cafe Du Monde and The River by Steve Fox, Pete Remembers Woody CD, Pete Seeger; Bountiful River; Abenaki Greeting Song with Black Hawk Singers 

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