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 Frightened Attack
This story was told to my great grandmother, my grandmother and my
mother, and was passed down to me.
A long time ago there was a young woman named Maruss who lived in
the village of Takchak. This little Yupilc vrnage was located 150
miles upstream from the mouth of the Yukon River.
Maruss once had a daughter named Alexandra. Alexandra was her
first baby, but she died of a terrible accident while picking berries
on the tundra.
It all began one evening when she went out to pick some wild
rhubarbs for her family's evening snack and she saw this young boy in
the tall grasses doing something. She was wondering what he was doing
and she went to look for him. But he hid in the tall grasses until
she found him. After she found him she had to go back to the village.
She laughed as she was walking away. The boy knew she liked him.
When she got to the village, her mother asked why she didn't pick
enough rhubarbs. She told her mother that she ended up playing with
someone from the village. Her mother was the wife of the chief in the
village. So, the boys that liked her in the village couldn't ask her
out. Her parents would have to pick her husband. She didn't like that
way of living. But it was the custom that she had to get married.
Her parents were talking about who the boy in the village might be
who would marry her. When her mother walked away from the
conversation, Maruss asked her who her husband would be. She told
Maruss she didn't know because it was mostly up to her father. Then
Maruss told her mother who she liked in the village. But Maruss said
she didn't know who this young boy was, or who his parents were. Soon
after she went out to look for them. But she couldn't find who the
parents were of the young boy her daughter admired.
She waited for a week and finally her father told her when the day
was she was going to get married. When that day came she got ready.
Everybody was waiting in the mudhouse when she entered with her
mother and father. Then she saw the boy. It was the same boy she had
met picking
berries. She smiled at him and he smiled back. Maruss was happy
she was going to marry him. They had a baby girl a year later. That
baby was named Alexandra. But one day when Maruss went out berry
picking she saw this big brown animal in the willows looking at her.
It was a bear. She did what her parents had told her to do, but that
bear suddenly ran out and charged her. Then tore her apart. The next
day when her mother went out to look for her she found her where she
had been picking berries. Then her husband ran out to look for this
animal and shot it. He skinned the bear and brought back the fur.
They buried her parts in that skin, and the young girl Alexandra was
told this story about her mother when she was old enough to know. She
passed it on to her daughter who still lives today.
Marlene Papp
True Stories
from Experience
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Bear Fire
Stories and Poems
about Bears
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by Marshall High School
Language Arts Classes
Spring, 1992
Produced
by
Information
about Bears
Creative
Stories from the Imagination
True
Stories from Experience
Poems
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 |
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M&M Monthly |
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Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997 |
Happy Easter! March/April 1998 |
Merry Christmas December Edition 1997 |
Happy Valentines
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 |
Ravens
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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