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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.

 

 

 

 

Dealing with the Hatred

 

Sky grew up in a small Indian village somewhere in Oklahoma. When she was a young girl she always dreamed of going to the city and having a better life. Finally, during her senior year in high school she found out she was accepted by a small junior college in a town not too far away. Sky was the happiest person in the world that day. But she had no idea what it was going to be like when she got there.

"Aah!" she screamed. "I got accepted! I'm getting out of this crumby little place! I can't wait to go."

"That's nice dear, but don't be too happy to go. You might want to come right back home," Sky's mother said with a worried look on her face.

"Oh mom, you just don't want me to go. There's no way that I'm ever going to want to come back here!"

"Sky, you never know what can happen out there. It's a dangerous world today. You could get murdered, raped, stalked, harrassed, or anything else bad."

"Mom it's just a small town. I'll be alright there. Nothing bad can possibly happen. I'll make sure of that," Sky said, trying to reassure her mom and not to make her so worried. Then she gave her mom a kiss and ran out the door to tell everybody the good news.

When fall rolled around the corner and it was time for Sky to leave for college, she was very excited. She left her little village behind on the bus and headed for the town. Her heart pounded wildly and there was a permanent smile painted on her face throughout the whole ride. Even though the bus ride was three hours long, she felt like she couldn't keep still. Finally, after what seemed like days to Sky, the bus finally pulled to a stop outside the junior college. She grabbed her bags and stood outside for a minute and looked around. Then she walked into the nearest building. There were about ten people inside and they all stared at Sky as she walked in and headed for the little booth labeled "information." She felt her stomach muscles tighten and a small sweat break out on her forehead. This uneasy feeling made her want to turn around and run out.

"It's one of those Indians," she heard someone whisper. Sky forced a smile but it made her feel even more uncomfortable. As Sky was looking around the room she stumbled on her bags. People started snickering, then someone made an Indian war whoop and everyone started laughing.

That night Sky cried herself to sleep in her room, wondering if her mother was right after all and wishing that she hadn't come here. "But maybe tomorrow things will be better. Today is just the first day, she whispered to herself and drifted off to sleep.

The next day everybody was registering for classes. And still people made fun of Sky and said rude things as she passed by. Despite all the mean people, Sky managed to keep her confidence up and to make a couple of new friends. She found out that the people who made fun of her didn't like her because she was an Indian.

During the first day of classes Sky sat down in her speech class, and her teacher told the students that their first assignment would be to write a speech on what they thought of the place and how they felt to be there. "This is my chance," Sky thought to herself. "I'm going to tell all these people what it is really like being an Indian. Maybe some of them will change the way they feel about me once I express my true feelings."

Sky wrote a speech about racism and the way some people had treated her when she first came to the campus. She wrote about the way she felt when that happened. After she made her speech to the class her teacher asked her if she would mind presenting it in front of the whole campus. Sky accepted the offer and made the speech. After that many of the people changed their attitudes toward her, although others were too proud to change. Sky was even on statewide television and in the newspapers, and her speech was published in some magazines.

Miles away from the little college, Sky's mother sat smiling as she read about her daughter in the paper. "I will no longer have to worry about my little baby. She has grown up well," she thought, as she admired her daughter's picture. "If you can deal with hate, you can deal with anything.

By Charlotte Alstrom

Boycott Texaco!

 

 

 

Racism!

- John Tikiun

Racial Troubles

- Robert Pitka

Race!

- Garrett Evan

Our New V.P.S.O.

- Mary Jane Shorty

Something New

- Cheryl Hunter

Prom Night

- Jack George

Supreme Court

- Tanya Peter

The Bad Times

- Fred Alstrom

A Night Gone Bad!

- Matthew Shorty

Dealing with the Hatred

- Charlotte Alstrom

No Niggers In Our Town!

- Jonathan Boots

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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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