Jamie Jacobs is from the Tonawanda Seneca Reservation located in Western NY. He is of the turtle clan and currently works at the Rochester Museum and Science Center as managing curator of the Rock Foundation collections. Jamie is also a ceremonial custodian in the ceremonial longhouse of the Tonawanda Seneca. Duties include officiating traditional funerals, weddings, and ceremonies. Jamie is very knowledgable and semi-fluent in the Seneca language and helped to establish the Tonawanda Adult cohort Language program on the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, where there are no surviving first language speakers currently living. Among the three Seneca communities the Seneca language is in a critical state. Jamie also practices the traditional art of working with porcupine quills. Jamie travels extensively to museums to perform research on ancestral made pieces to study construction techniques and design. Jamie works to ensure Seneca language will survive into the future along with the traditional art of porcupine quills.