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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.

 

 

 

 

Alexander Isaac's Christmas Season

 

Alexander Isaac said that he enjoyed this past holiday season. He attended the christmas programs put on by the school and city, but he did not really celebrate the catholic Christmas, which is on the 25th of December, because he is Russian Orthodox and goes by a different calendar. For most of the Catholic holiday season he and his wife kept to doing just ordinary things.

"Slavik' is a Yupik word borrowed from the Russian language. It means something like "glorious" and is given to Orthodox Christmas. Slavik starts on the 7th of January and these days goes until the star has gone through all the houses in town. But Alexander says that things, including Slavik, are different these days. Back when he was young there was a lot more discipline among the kids, and they also had to do more work. Before Slavik started, the boys had to chop lots of wood and pack water for the people of the village to use. When the star was in a house the children were not loud and mischief like they are today, and no one was allowed to leave a house the star was in until it did. The Slavying itself lasted three days and three nights, and everyone participated. Today a lot of things are different, but some things remain the same, like the spirit of the season.

This Slavik Alexander spent in Kwethluk where he did some Slavying. He was also there to watch his son, Nick, be ordained as a subdeacon by Bishop Innocent who had come all the way from Kodiak to perform the ceremony.

By: Alexander Isaac
Interviewed by: Ben Peteroff

Alexander Isaac's Christmas Season

Nick Andrew's Vacation

- Nick Andrew/Garrett Evan

Alexander Isaac's Christmas Season

- Alexander Isaac/Ben Peteroff

Pete Williams' Christmas Story

- Pete Williams/Fred Alstrom

Nastasia Turet's Busy Vacation

- Nastasia Turet/Theresa George

John's Christmas Vacation

- John Moxie/Olga Moxie

Vernon's Vacation Does Not Meet Needs

 - Chris Fitka

Father ED's Busy Vacation

- Father Ed Flint/John Tikiun Jr.

Christmas at Kalskag

- Mary K. Evan/Tanya Peter

A Sharing Memory

- Nastasia Andrew/Carmen Pitka

Agnes Boliver's Short Vacation

- Agnes Boliver/Gerilyn Fitka

  

Student Stories

 

Tales by Parents

 

Tales by the Elders

 

Staff Stories

  

If I were...

 

The Christmas of my Dreams

 

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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