About Generations
Generations Blog: Where Ancestral Roots Meet Living Stories
Curated by generations of the Bruchac family of Greenfield Center, New York, this work explores the Abenaki enclaves of Greenfield—especially our family’s role in the Splinterville Hill network of 19th-century basket makers. It’s a space for history and family research, where modern tools meet ancestral knowledge to reclaim our full story. Through careful research and storytelling, we honor the triumphs, struggles, and wisdom of those before us—linking past, present, and future to better understand who we are and where we’re going.
Our Nulhegan tribal nation’s flag bears words in western Abenaki—an Eastern Algonquian language: Nikônkôgoagik ni waji ôlemôwziakw — “The ancestors are the reason that we continue to live.”