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.

 

Bee In The Tree

 

One bright sunny day in July, my parents and brothers and sisters decided to go berry picking in our boat. We invited my great aunt and her daughters to come too. My great aunt, Anna Polty, Nora Tikiun (Oney), Martina Harry (Oney) and Florence Peter (Oney) got into the boat and everyone was ready to push off. We pushed off and went upriver to Kwik to pick blueberries.

All morning we walked on the tundra looking for berries to pick. Since there weren't any on the wide open tundra we decided to check near the tree line. It was hot and there were a lot of bugs biting. Nora, Martina and I walked close to a clump of trees to look for berries and then went over to a little creek to get some water to drink for our mothers.

When we came to a clump of pine trees and willows we found a lot of blueberries, big ones! We started picking. Then Martina went into the trees to take a drink of water and relieve herself. Pretty soon she came out screaming and crying. Nora and I ran over to her to check what was wrong. She said, "A bumble bee just stung me"! Nora and I investigated the area and we found a bee hive with a lot of bees swarming around it in the hot sun. Nora wanted to knock down the hive but I said, "No! the bees will chase us!" Nora said, "That only happens in the movies!" Then I said, "Wait until I'm far away first," and I started running.

Martina went back to see what was happening. Nora knocked the bee hive down and took off running. Martina was so stunned at the event she just stood there watching the bees swarm until she got stung! Then she took off running after Nora and me. Our mothers asked us what was wrong and we said it was bumble bees. We ran toward the fire they'd made for lunch. Martina was crying loudly. Our mothers tried to calm her down, but she kept on crying.

Then all of a sudden we saw a black bear coming toward the noise we had made at the tree line. It probably thought Martina was her cub. So we all got into the boat as fast as we could and moved to another spot. We all stayed away from the trees in our new spot. We didn't want to have a bee bramble again!!! No trees for me!! "I don't even want to see a bee!!!

By Clara Shorty
THE END Typed by Matthew Shorty

 

Bee Story	Alex Evan
Bee In The Tree	Clara Shorty/Matthew Shorty

 

BEES Student Stories Fiction   Parent Stories Non-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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