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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 Whale That Changed Into a Wolf

 

There are a lot of stories about the sea that the elders have told us, like the beluga whale that changed into a wolf and the beaver that changed into a killer whale. Whenever they wanted to change into an animal they would go to the shore.

Long ago if the whales were swimming around and they were really starving because they weren't able to find any food, they would come up on land and change into wolves. As wolves they walked around the land and ate everything that was in sight, that is until they came up to this one woman who had rubbed some ointment on her that would keep the dangerous animals away from her. The wolves could not touch her at all, so they went on until they found food somewhere else.

Until this day it is believed that they still change from land animals to sea animals, and sea animals to land animals. This is why Beluga whales sometimes have hair on them. It is said they are about to change into wolves.

Amllertut quliirarqat imarpirmeng, teggnet quliiruallqat wangkutnung. Imar-piurtartung cimiirarqlluteng kairgameng, paluktak-llu allrumeng. Cimiryukamengllu ssnamun taggtut.

Aka tamaani cetuat kuimallarteng, kiak-apairluteng-llu, neqkamiiteng-llu nall-kitcirartnateng. Tua-llu ssnamun maiyur-lluteng cimirluteng-llu tanrilriit ner-luki, tua-llu arnamun tekilluteng cameng-rruq mingurluni, tauna mingurqaq ungung-ssineng agtuggcigganaku, tamaakut kegger- nerlet ayaluteng neqkameng evaryartug-luteng.

Maiyirpak cali tamaakut ungungssit tuaten cimirrlartut kaiggakameng. Ung-ungssit cimiiraqluteng imarpiutarmeng, imarpiutat-llu ungungssitmeng. Cetuat-ruk nuyangkertut cimiryukameng kegglernermung.

Story by
Irene Kaganak
Interviewed by
LouAnn Aguchak

 The Whale That Changed Into a Wolf The Whale That Changed Into a Wolf

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
-fiction-

Student Stories of the Bering
-nonfiction-

  

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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