 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.
It Was All
Over!
My brother and I were born early in
the morning in spring. A couple of days later I was eating grasses by
the water and my brother came up to me and told me that he wanted to
go for a swim in the lake. While we were swimming, this brown bear
came out and started to chase after us. I was close to the shore, so
I got out of the water right away. My brother was not so lucky. The
bear jumped into the water and caught my brother and killed
him.
I ran over to my mother. When the
bear came near my mother dragging my brother, she started to threaten
him. It was not a very big bear, and my mother kicked the bear in the
face really hard and it took off. After that everything was pretty
much okay except I didn't have a brother to play with
anymore.
My mom kicked me out when I was one
year old. Soon after that I started to grow antlers. When I went over
to the water and saw my reflection, I was real glad that I was still
alive.
I mostly hung around lakes and
marshes because there was a lot of food in those places. A couple of
times bears tried to chase me, but they were too far away to catch
me.
In the winter it was more dangerous
because it was hard to run away when you were in deep snow. But then
there were no bears. The worst thing about winter was that there was
hardly anything to eat because the snow covered all the food. Some of
the very old moose died because they were too old to walk in the deep
snow to find food.
When I was five I was walking around
in this big lake during fall time. I dipped into the water to get
some food, and when I came up I heard this strange noise. Then these
strange animals came out of the trees into the open. They were
wearing some kind of fur that looked like leaves and branches, and
they were carrying these freaky looking shiny sticks with them. They
started to make noises like cow moose, so I started to swim towards
them. As I got closer, they lifted the sticks to their shoulders.
Then I heard this thunder. A split second later there was a big
splash right in front of me. I turned around and started to swim back
to the other shore. They shot again, but they were too bum a shot.
When I got to shore I ran to a portage that a hungry brown bear had
made when chasing a moose. I ran through the portage up to the tundra
where one of those funny looking animals with sticks shot me in the
antler. Then one of them shot me in the left buttock. I was still
running, but I was getting pretty tired and I started to slow
down.
When I reached some timbers, I
stopped and looked back. I didn't see the strange animals any more,
so I lay down and rested. My rear end was very sore. The bullet was
not very far in the flesh, and I was not bleeding any more, so I was
thinking that the wound would heal in a couple of weeks. After
resting for awhile, I got up and looked around. I saw two bushes
crawling towards me on the tundra, but I thought that I was imagining
things because I had lost so much blood. When the bushes grew taller,
though, I saw that they were those strange animals that had shot me
in the buttocks, and I took off running through the trees. Those
animals must have really wanted to kill me because they'd come this
far to get me. I thought that if I kept on running, maybe they would
give up and turn back, so I kept going. But soon I got tired of
running and I stopped to rest. It was a fatal mistake because in ten
minutes the hunters had already caught up again. I stood up to run
away, but they shot me in the neck, and it was all over!
Maurice Turet
(Alces
alces) The Moose
Moose
Fact Sheet
Student
Stories
Stories
By Parents
Stories
By Elders
Stories
By Successful Hunters
Stories
By School Staff
"If
I were a Moose…"
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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