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.

 

If I Were A Bear

 

If I were to be a Grizzly for the summer, I would want to be a female cub. I wouldn't want to, go near any one of the towns. The only place I would want to stay is in a very safe area. I would want to go out to look for food, then come back to the place where I was before. When I find food I would want to go to to another safe place. The reason why I wouldn't want to go any closer to any one of the towns is because the men like to kill bears even if they didn't do any harm to anybody. I would only stay one and a half miles away from the town. I would look for food, but if there is hardly any food around I would go to another place to look for food. I would want to eat fish, berries and trash. After that I would go and take a rest. After taking a rest I would keep on going and looking for food. When it got dark I would stop and get comfortable and go to sleep. The next day I would go out looking for more food to eat. When I'm looking for food I would do something interesting like chase other animals I saw for the fun of it. After that I would want to go and find a quiet place to stay for the winter. When winter was over I would want to look around for more food. When I saw Frank Keim in the tundra I' d want to chase him. Later on I would go and explore . When I saw a male I would try and run as fast as I could to get away from him. When I got away I would keep on going. If I saw an animal I'd chase after it. When I caught it I' d eat it but I'd watch out for other kinds of animals while I am eating. After that I 'd take a rest before going on my journey. Then, along the way I' d stop at a stream to get a drink of water so that I won't get thirsty for awhile. When mating season came I would want to have a female cub. The reason why I wouldn't want a male cub is because they can be too much. Some may be mischief and mean and some of the other ones may not be mean and mischief. But I think the female cubs are better than the male cubs.

By: Mary Jane Shorty

If I Was A Bear.....	Yvonne Evan
Fake Bear Story	Greg Evan
A Sad Adventure	Charlotte Alstrom
My Black Bear Story	Sophie Ann Moore
If I Were A Bear For the Summer	Jackie George
If I Were A Bear	Mary Jane Shorty
Grizz for the Summer	Matthew Shorty
The Grizzly	Jonathan Boots
If I Were A Bear For A Couple of Years...	Tanya Lynn Peter
The Summer Grizz	Robert Pitka
If I were a bear I would.....	Theresa George

 

 

BEARS Information Student Stories Non-Fiction Student Stories Fiction

 

 

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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