 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.
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BMEEC and
ME
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By: Rose Lynn Fitka
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The 24th Annual Bilingual Multicultural Education Equity
Conference (BMEEC) was held in Anchorage from February 4th to the
6th. The conference took place at the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel.
I arrived in Anchorage at around 8 o'clock with 10 other students
and two chaperones from the LYSD. We met our third chaperone at the
airport and he helped us with our luggage and took us to the Sheraton
Hotel.
When we got to the hotel we got our room numbers and the names of
our roommates. After we got settled, we went to our chaperones' room
to get to know each other, go over rules, get dinner money and decide
where to eat.
We ended up eating at the Red Robin and got back to the hotel at
midnight. The chaperones had bed check at 1:00 a.m. so everybody
could get ready for bed.
The next day everyone got up at 8 o'clock, and we went down to the
second floor where we registered. Then we went up to the fifteenth
floor to the Gallery where we met a lot of other students from other
places. Some of them were from Sitka, Gambel, Nome, Angoon, Iditarod,
Delta, Teller, Fairbanks, Lower Kuskokwim and Lower Yukon. We played
games that helped us get to know each other until our lunch break at
noon.
At around 1:45 we went back to the Gallery with the same students
and learned various kinds of Native songs, including a couple of
songs from the Lower Kuskokwim and Mt. Village. The Gajaa Heen
Dancers from Sitka performed some Aleut, Haida and Interior
Athabaskan pieces for us there. The performance I enjoyed most that
day was a Russian song by a high school student from Delta who was
originally from Estonia.
At 3:30 our group met in our chaperones' room and planned what we
were going to do until the banquet which was going to be held at
7:30. We decided to go to the PHS Hospital because most of the
students wanted to visit their relatives. After getting lost, we
finally found the hospital where we stayed for only half an hour.
Then we went shopping at Fred Meyers.
Later that night in the ballroom, we all enjoyed watching
different dance groups perform. One was the Anchorage East High
Dancers "Dance Contempo" that danced about seven pieces from
different places like the Philippines, Romania, Africa, the Middle
East, the Ukraine Republic and China. Their songs were very good. The
other groups I saw perform were the Gajaa Heen dancers, Wasilla Job
Corps Dance Group and the King Island Dancers.
The next day all the students were shuttled in buses to UAA where
we stayed for about 2 hours touring the buildings. When we were done
there, we were shuttled to APU where we stayed for about three hours.
Then we went back to the hotel to rest and get ready for the
banquet.
The banquet started at 7:00 and lasted until 10:00 p.m. During
this three hour gathering we heard a speech by Senator Georgianna
Lincoln from the Alaska Legislature. Two of the things she talked
about were the English as the official language issue and the theme
of Global Literacy Through Local Traditions. She encouraged many of
us to look into the language issue she was talking about, and, if we
agreed, to help defeat it. I found her speech to be very educational,
and, although I understood her feelings about the topic, I didn't
really understand all the politics.
The next morning, all of the student groups went back up to the
Gallery to fill out evaluation forms for the next year. While we were
in the middle of choosing a student guest speaker, John Active and a
Heart Beat Alaska cameraman came in and asked some students why they
thought bilingualism was so important to them. Most of the students
had similar answers, but others didn't know what to say.
When we were done with the evaluations, everyone was invited to
the luncheon in the ballroom. It lasted for about three hours, and by
then all of us students were really tired.
Shortly after we ate, most of us went to the Fireweed Theater
where we watched the three-hour-long movie, Titanic. When it was over
we went back to the hotel and went to bed so we wouldn't be tired the
next day.
In the morning, we all got up at 6:30, then went to the airport to
go home.
I really learned a lot at the conference, and I hope I get to go
to another one. A few things I learned were: that Yup'ik is the only
Native language in Alaska that has promise for survival, that there
are 1,000's of different languages in the world, and that there are
more than 100 languages in Anchorage alone! That is a lot.
Calendar
Editorial Section
Charlotte Alstrom
BMEEC
and ME
Rose Lynn Fitka
Community
News
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Caribou Hunting at Kalskag
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Jackie Paul George
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Orthodox Church News
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Nick Isaac
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Catholic Church News
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Tassie Fitka
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Career Fair at Hooper Bay
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Tatiana Sergie
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What's
Happenin' at School
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Kindergarten
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Annie Hunter
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Barb's 1st and 2nd Grades
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By the 1st and 2nd Grades
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Third and Fourth Grades
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Janice Olson
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Fifth and Sixth Grades
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Flora Evan
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Richard's Classes
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Richard Olsen
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Guy's Classes
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Guy Sandlin
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Frank's Classes
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Frank Keim
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Basketball Update
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Cheryl Hunter
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Marshall School Has A New Teacher
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Maurice Turet
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Donna Returns from Close-Up
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Valerie Nick
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What if...
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Valerie Nick
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Word
Search
Elder's
Page
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Caught in a Snow Storm
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Theresa Boots
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Look
To The Stars
Your Personal Horoscope
Valentine's
Dedications
Message Page
(in pdf)
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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