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.

 

The Asian Black Bear

The Asian black bear's scientific name is Selenarctos tibetanus which means "moon bear of Tibet." Asian bears also have two other names, the Tibetan black bear and Himalayan black bear. They are a highly adaptable forest animal and are found from the bases of eastern Asia's coastal foothills up to 13,000 feet (4,000 m.) It also accurs in Iran, Afghanistan, and also northern Pakistan, and east through the Himalaya Mountain as far as Bangladesh and Laos, north throughout the Tibetan Plateau, Manchuria, and in forested areas of China. Asian black bears are also found on Formosa (Taiwan) and the Japanese islands of Honshu and Shikuko.

The Moon bear gets its name from the large, white crescent-shaped mark on its chest. The rest of the bear's body fur is jet black except for its brown or tan muzzle and whitish chin.

The "moon bear" eats nuts, berries, fruits, beetle larvae, termites and carrion. It likes to hibernate during the winter. But before it hibernates it eats a lot of its favorite foods to get fat. In winter the females have their cubs. The cubs stay with their mother for two to three years. Then they leave their mother and go out on their own.

By: Mary Jane Shorty

Grizzly	Jackie George
Brownies	Matthew Shorty
American Black Bear	Robert Pitka
The Polar Bear	Sophie Ann Moore
Asian Brown Bear	Greg Evan
The Asian Black Bear	Mary Jane Shorty
Spectacled Bear	Jonathan Boots
Sloth Bears	Tanya Peter
Giant Pandas	Theresa George
The Sun Bear	Charlotte Alstrom
Koala	Yvonne Evan

 

 

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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