 Marshall
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.
DOWN FEATHERS
There used to be so many different
kinds of birds out at Mernaulivik and they used to be so tame, we
easily could approach them. Especially when the swans and other kinds
of birds were on the nest you could come right up to them. The birds
were spread out all over the delta from up North down to Tununak all
along the shores of the Bering Sea and they used to stay there during
the summer time. Nothing happened to them there and when the people
would catch them, they never took their babies, only the adult
ones.
This story is told that many years
ago there were Gussoks who used to buy the down feathers of geese.
The people down South didn't have any other kind of clothes but those
made of cotton, and so they wanted these down feathers to make warm
down coats, ski-pants, and other winter clothes. As a result of
taking goose down feathers in this way these birds are growing fewer
very fast.
The Game Wardens say that Gussuks
don't use these bird feathers anymore. But I have looked at the
feathers from old coats that were thrown in the trash and there were
feathers from Canadian geese, Emperor and Black Brants. I recognized
all of them. So I know that it is still true that Gussuks get their
down feathers in this way and because of it the numbers of these
birds are continuing to go down.
By Francis Akuchak as told to
Marie Hunter
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 |
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| M&M Monthly |
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| 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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