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Yup'ik RavenMarshall Cultural Atlas

This collection of student work is from Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available for educational use only.

 

Blue Eyes

 

Characters: Laura Hunter--Narrator

Martina Prince--The Female Bird

Stella Walker--The Eyes

 

Setting: A small female bird is flying around looking for a good tree to build her nest and lay her eggs in. She finds it near a river.

 

Narrator: A long time ago there was a small female bird who was looking for a tree to build a nest and lay her eggs in. She flew around for many days but could not find a tree that suited her, until one day she flew over the tundra and saw a tree that she really liked.

Bird: "Ah, ha!" she said. "There it is!" "The tree I've been looking for." "This is the spot where I want to make my nest."

 

Narrator: Soon after she started building the nest, she began feeling uncomfortable with the branches all over her, so she took out her eyes and told them to watch carefully for anything that might harm her. As she started building again, her eyes began to play tricks on her. They sang a false warning song twice, saying

 

 

Eyes: Qalaara, qalaraa-aa, caag makut, qiag makut, arigpagait kuk, qalaraa.

Narrator: As soon as she heard the song, she felt around for her eyes, and when she found them, she put them back on and looked around to see if there was anyone or anything coming. But after looking around, she didn't see anything. So she took out her eyes and went back to work again. Not long afterwards, her eyes again began to sing a warning song saying:

 

Eyes: "Qalaara, qalaraa-aa, caag makut, qiag makut, arigpagait kuk, qalaraa."

Bird: "This time I don't believe you." "Don't try and pull that dirty trick on me, and, just watch for danger," the female bird said.

 

Narrator: But after a while, the bird heard no noise at all coming from her eyes. So she felt around for them. But though she groped for a long time, she couldn't find them. They were gone. So what she did was search around till she found some berries, which she put in her eye sockets. And when she opened her eyes, everything was blue. (Her new eyes were blue berries). She never did find her real eyes, though. So she just continued to use the blue bersies for her eyes from that time on. That is why those small birds have blue eyes today.

Blue Eyes

 

The Trickster
Mary Uttereyuk/Mike Uttereyuk
The Two Cranes
Agnes Aguchak/Matilda Kasayuli
Blue Eyes The Ugly Goose
Martina Prince

 

 

Old Bird Stories

New Stories

Student Plays

Poems

 

Christmastime Tales
Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1996
Christmastime Tales II
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1998
Christmastime Tales III
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 2000
Summer Time Tails 1992 Summertime Tails II 1993 Summertime Tails III
Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995 Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996 Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997
Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999 Signs of the Times November 1996 Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations
Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out, the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993 Yupik Gourmet - A Book of Recipes  
M&M Monthly    
Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997 Happy Easter! March/April 1998 Merry Christmas December Edition 1997
Happy Valentine’s Day! February Edition 1998 Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000 Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997
Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon Bay Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981
The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska Poems of Hooper Bay Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students)
Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997 People in Our Community
Buildings and Personalities of Marshall Marshall Village PROFILE Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A Glimpse of the Past’
Raven’s Stories Spring 1995 Bird Stories from Scammon Bay The Sea Around Us
Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the Weather Spring 1996 Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November, 1998 Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993
Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming and the future November, 1997 Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring, 1992

 

 
 

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