 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.
How Raven Made the Milky
Way
A long time ago Raven used to live on
top of a mountain above Ohagmiut. Down below between two round
cheek-like rocks he used to keep his kayak. In the river he even made
a rock fence for fishing for his salmon. One day though he moved down
to Nelson Island. While he was there he visited a man's house where
there were many humans gathered together. But since he was only a
bird in those days he didn't receive the attention he thought he
should have. So he thought he should take on the form of a human. But
how could he do this, he wondered?
It so happened that at this man's
house he noticed there was a young married woman who was childless.
So he thought about her and decided on a plan. When she went to the
water bucket to get a drink with her cup, Raven made himself as small
as a speck of dust and landed on the surface of the water where she
scooped him up and drank him down into her stomach.
While Raven was in her stomach she
became pregnant, and after her time gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
The boy grew up to be a man and the man became a good hunter and
claimed the respect of the people of the land. Thus had Raven
achieved his goal.
But Raven wanted to do more. Since
there was no sun or moon in those days, it was very dark and hard for
people and animals to see what they were doing. So Raven decided to
try to find daylight and so make it easier to see. Since it was
winter and there was much snow on the ground he put on a pair of
snowshoes before he went out in search of the daylight. He slogged
along searching and searching but couldn't find daylight on the
Earth, so he took off into the heavens thinking he might find it up
there. As he slogged along in the sky with his snow-covered snowshoes
he left some of the snow on the trail he had travelled. For that
reason when you look up at the heavens at night they seem to have a
misty covering of snow on them. This is the snowshoe trail that Raven
made in his search for the daylight. Today we call it the Milky
Way.
By:
Alexander Isaac
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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