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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.

 

 

 

 

New Year's In Seattle

"On New Year's Eve my boss, Leana, had a party at her house. Leana and her partner have a very nice house with a backyard and everything. At the party there were three men in suits playing Blackjack while this kid about the same age as my son was dealing. My son, Jake, wanted to play and he ended up winning $3.50.

This party had the classiest of everything. They had all kinds of finger foods arranged nice and neat, and turkey, and they even had some caviar. Also, they had all the best liquor and wines and champagne you could ever find. Everything was the finest.

Not too long before midnight Leana and her partner had everyone get into a circle and say this chant that had to do with forgetting about the past and looking into the future. Then they started to sing Row Your Boat. They had a fire out in the backyard where we were having the party, and Leana pulled out this sage grass. She lit it and started putting smoke on everyone as a blessing. As it got closer to midnight, more and more fireworks started going off in the distance. People started to sing more quietly. The wind started picking up.

By midnight it was really windy and the trees were swaying back and forth. The fireworks started going crazy at midnight. The people in the circle were still singing Row Your Boat and Jake told me that this whole thing was dumb. The whole ritual seemed Pagan or Wiccan or Druid, and it was kind of eerie. I was sitting on the back porch watching them while I sipped a Glen Libets single malt scotch. Then Leana told everyone to look to the east, look to the south, and so on. When they looked to the north, everyone was looking at me because I was north of them and that was sort of embarrassing. When they quit singing and sat around the fire and talked. Then Jake wanted to play Blackjack again, but nobody else wanted to."

Phil Turet

New Year's In Seattle

Opening Presents

- Palassa Owletuck

New Year's In Seattle

- Phil Turet

New Card Games

- Olga Soolook

A "Happy" New Year!

- Ruth Ann Fitka

A Time When Food was Scarce

- David Fitka

In The Maqii House

- Katemal Shorty

A Hectic Christmas

- Palassa Fitka

Not This Year

- Julia Papp

A St. Patrick's Christmas

- Donna Best

Work On My Family Tree

- Richard Olsen

Working in the School

- Nick Duny

A Moose Hunting Christmas

- Emil Kuinya

In my Daughter's Helicopter

- Ray Butts

The Akutak Race

- Clara Shorty

Slavic in Mountain Village

- Annie Fitka

A Time of Great Relaxation

- Flora M. Evan

My Grandsons' Santa Claus

- Guy Sandlin

Traveling with Lena

- Gerilyn Fitka

Christmas Blackfish

- Theresa Kameroff

A Blast From the Past

- Andy Boots

My Millennium Holiday

- Max Lunt

To See My Mother in Mountain Village

- Annie Hunter

New Year's in a Volcano

- Barb Sandlin

Twenty-five Fish!

- Terri Manumik

Home With Family

- Frank Keim

 

Student Stories

 

Stories from Parents,
School
and Community

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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