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.

 

 

 

 

Addiction, It's Saddening

Quinten, 15, was taking some hits with a few of his older friends, from the pot they had scored from a local dealer.

He first started doing dope when he was fourteen. Peer pressure from the rest of the homies in his neighborhood gang had gotten to him. He and the other guys would skip classes and hang out in each other's houses if their parents weren't home. Since they lived in the ghetto, someone would always have some dope because it was so easy to get.

After taking a third hit, it started to kick in. Everyone was having a good time until someone hollered, "Five 0, Run!" Everyone split, scrambling in every direction trying to get away from the police. Quinten didn't get far because he was caught by one of the officers.

The next thing he knew he was down at the police station where they asked him some questions, and wrote him up in the criminal record book. Now he had a record. But he wasn't cooperating with the police, so they called his parents to come and pick him up.

Quinten's mom came walking into the station, mad. She stared at him hard as she walked past the counter and asked for officer Mitchell. After his mom had talked to officer Mitchell, they both came walking towards Quinten. Then they entered a room where they all could talk about his situation. Officer Mitchell told her that he might be given one more chance but he'd have to see. Before Quinten and his mother left, officer Mitchell told him that he would have to appear in court.

The next day Quinten's mom brought him to the court house and sat with him for his hearing. The judge said he would be given one more chance under one condition, that he would go into treatment for his marijuana problem. He agreed so he could get out of there quickly.

After Quinten was taken to the institute he remained by himself and at first didn't hang out with anybody. While he was there he saw some boys he knew when they were kids, and he made friends with them again. After he put in some theropy time at the institute he soon was out on the streets again.

It wasn't long till he was back into marijuana, though, and as the days went by he started using it more and more often. It became a thing he needed, or so he thought. He started stealing money from his parents, brothers and sisters just so that he could have a hit of marijuana. Soon he became so dependent upon it that he used up what little money he had for it. Then he borrowed so much money from people some of them were threatening to take his life if he didn't return the money.

It was too late when Quinten finally realized that he'd gotten into so much trouble it was now impossible to get out. Too many people were looking for him and he didn't have a way to pay them back. He was finally murdered at the age of only sixteen years old, just a couple of days before his seventeenth birthday.

by: Matthew Shorty

 

 

 

Jail Time	- Jackie Paul George
Addiction, It's Saddening	- Matthew Shorty
The Overdose	- Fred Alstrom
A World of Hate	- Charlotte Alstrom
Being A Druggy	- Mary Jane Shorty
A Deadly Addiction	- Jonathan Boots
Recovered From Heroin	- Tanya Peter
Drugs on the Freeway	- Garrett Evan
Hooked on Heroin	- Cheryl Hunter
The Need For Speed	- Robert Pitka

 

My name is Kerry and I have
AIDS
(Now I'm dead!)

 

A Deadly Addiction

 

Domestic Violence

 

Breaking up is hard to take!

 

Can we get along?
Racism!

 

Going, Going Gone!
Man and the
Environment

 

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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