Bruce Jim is of the Dock-Spus (Tukspush) people and is an elder of the Warm Springs Tribe. As a member of the Fish and Wildlife Committee of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and a board member of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, he is actively involved in restoration and stewardship of wildlife habitat on the Warm Springs Reservation, on Warm Springs ceded lands and elsewhere in the John Day River basin and the high desert of the Columbia River region.