 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.
I was
Dead!
I was born in April of 1983, along
with two other calves which I learned were my brother and sister. I
was in a world much bigger than where I came from. As I opened my
eyes and looked around, I was afraid, but with my mother at my side,
I felt safe. Awhile after I was born, I tried getting up on my feet,
but I couldn't because my legs were so weak. I knew I had to keep on
trying, though, and soon I started to walk. My brother and sister got
the hang of it, too, and we started exploring the forest. It was so
exciting for me and my brother and sister. Then we went back to our
mother, and she taught us how to eat grass and many other things. I
thought, at first, this world wasn't dangerous at all, but later my
mother told us that there were many dangers in this world that we
were going to have to face. For now, though, I felt safe, and later
in the evening, we all went out fot a swim. It was so fun that I
wanted to stay in the water longer, but it
was getting dark and we had to go
home.
A year passed, and then it was time
for us to leave our mother. It was hard for us, but she explained
why, and we understood. By this time, we were pretty much grown up. I
thought this was the saddest part of my life, leaving my mother. But
I still had my sister and brother with me.
By my third year, I had big full
grown antlers. My brother and sister and I had already separated and
I had already mated. One day while I was walking along the river, I
heard a strange noise coming in my direction. It grew louder and
louder. I looked towards the far part of the river and I saw
something big in the water making a strange buzzing noise. I sensed
danger when I saw something move inside the strange object. They were
two-legged creatures! My mother had always warned us about the
dangers of the those two-legged creatures. They were the ones that
carried around the firesticks, as my mother called them. They too
made a strange loud noise. It was the first time I'd seen a
two-legged creature. I had always wondered how they looked. Suddenly,
the loud object started to come towards me much faster. I looked
closely and saw the men holding something I now recognized was a
firestick. I got scared and started running for the trees. Then the
firesticks made their loud noises, and while I was running towards
the trees something hit the ground with a splatting sound. I got even
more scared and ran faster. The men jumped out of the thing they were
in and made loud bangs with their firesticks as I ran up the beach.
They were hunting me. I ran through the trees as fast as I could.
When I came to this big clearing there was no place to hide. They
kept on shooting at me. Then something hit me on the leg and I felt a
sharp pain. I fell to the ground. I tried getting up, but I fell back
down. I finally got up and tried to run, but I couldn't and had to
walk with a limp. The men were getting closer to me, and they shot at
me again. I felt another terrible pain in my neck, and I fell to the
ground and couldn't move. Blood was flowing down my side where I got
hit. Then the pain started to go away and I felt dizzy, as if my life
was going to end. Suddenly I heard another loud shot, and it hit me
right in the head. I looked at the men one last time, then my mind
went blank and I couldn't think anymore. I was dead!
By: Jolene Soolook
(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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