 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.
Raven Steals The
Light
There once lived a very powerful and
rich chief who had a beautiful young daughter. Somehow, the chief got
the sun and the moon and he hung them up in his house. Because he had
the sun and the moon, it became dark everywhere.
Because of the darkness, the people
could not hunt or fish. When they went out to find wood to burn in
their fires, they had to crawl around in the forest feeling with
their hands until they found something which might be wood. Then they
would bite it to make certain that it was indeed firewood.
Raven learned that the great chief
had taken the sun and moon, so he went to his house to take it back.
He asked the chief if he would return the sun and moon, but he would
not. So the smart black bird devised a plan.
He saw how the chief's daughter went
to a small stream to get water every morning, so he hid near there
and waited for her to return. When he saw her coming down the trail,
he turned himself into a fingerling, a tiny fish, and jumped into the
water. After the girl arrived, she filled a bucket with water. Then
she dipped her drinking cup into the stream and Raven, disguised as a
fingerling, quickly swam into it. She did not see Raven and drank the
water.
Inside her body, Raven turned into a
baby and so the girl became pregnant. After a short time the daughter
gave birth to a baby boy which was really Raven. The baby grew fast
and was soon a young boy. The grandfather was very fond of his
grandson and would do anything for him. One day the boy began crying
for something.
The chief asked him, "What do you
want, grandson?"
The boy pointed to the sun and moon
hanging from the ceiling. The chief decided to let him play with them
if it would make him stop crying. So the boy took them outside and
played with them for a while, but then he threw them high into the
air. When the old chief ran out to see what had happened, Raven
became himself again and flew away. Since that time there has been
light.
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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