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Yup'ik RavenMarshall 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.

 

 

 

 

 

The Eiders 

The Eiders

One day long ago the sea was as blue as the sky around it.

As the red sun rose from the eastern horizon far away, there were 2 common eiders paddling a boat in the vast sea. While they were paddling the boat the younger brother of the eider started to cry, so his older brother sang him a song to try to cheer him up.

The song went like this, "Angiiriya hangara Angiiriya hangara Paugtu Mauku nunalarrku Mauku Ai-yi. Young eider, stop crying, something terrible might happen to us."

But he did not stop, so again his older brother sang. "Angiiriya hangara Angiiriya hangara paugtu mauku alalrratu mauku aiyi." He stopped crying then because his older brother had warned him.

After a while they hear another song that went like this, "Quartagyakmakut quarytut makut quartaryagtut makut quartaryagtut illiat uiknaiykenka taugia-a."

The song sounded like it was coming from the sky and they looked up. There in the dark blue sky coming down was a person holding the front end of it's shirt tail. The older eider then said to the younder eider, "Younger eider you have cried too much. Look what has come upon us."

When it came downthey saw it was a woman. When the woman was near them she dropped whatever she had in her front pocket into the sea, and when it fell in it turned part of the vast sea into land and there they found them-selves in a boat on the beach.

Soon the young eider's older brother got married to the woman and they lived in a little house on the beach.

One day the eider and his younger brother went hunting for reindeer and caribou. They went into the forest and there they saw 3 caribou standing. The younger brother took aim but suddenly his bow string broke.

When they came back home and the older brother told his wife all about their misfortune, right away she started to make a new bow string.

Before they went on their next hunting trip the older brother had told his wife not to poke at his younger brother's face no matter how childish his younger brother acted. But while she was trying to braid the sinew for the bow-string, the younger brother started to bug her, I mean really bug her, until she poked in the face with the needle. Instantly he fell dead and when she turned him over she found many needle holes in the young eider's face.

Being very scared, the woman buried the eider in the back of the house where she kept piles of grass, and that's where the young eider was hidden, but not very well. When the husband came in looking for his younger brother, the woman said she did not know where he was. But while he was looking around toward the back of the house he saw the knees of his younger brother, which had not been hidden very well. He then said to his wife, "I thought I told you not to poke his face with your needle." And while he was looking at his dead younger brother the woman was so scared she ran up into the hills on the beach carrying her pike fish parka with her.

Immediately the man ran out after her, yelling to her that he would not do anything to her and that he needed her to stay with. But she did not listen and ran up into the hills until she was out of sight. Then the older brother picked up his younger brother's body and put it in his kayak and they both went back to the sea from where they came.

Tuai

By Teddy Sundown

The Eiders

The Fisherman and the Yukcuaraq
Kuviasta-llu Yukcuaraq-llu

Joe Kaganak

The Eiders

Teddy Sundown

"The Sea-Bear that turned into a Seal"

Michael Uttereyuk Sr./Michael Uttereyuk Jr.

When I was Young

Nathan Kaganak/Stella Walker

Miklemni

Nathan Kaganak

The Whale That Changed Into a Wolf

Irene Kaganak/LouAnn Aguchak

The Mouse Who Jumped
Uggnarayaq Qeckatalera

Teddy Sundown/Norma Charlie

Danger Out There

Bruno Kasayuli, Sr.

Piciatun Pissuutuli

Elizabeth Kasayuli

  Student Stories of the Bering
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Student Stories of the Bering
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Stories by Elders and Others

 

Poems of The Sea

 

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  
M&M Monthly    
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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