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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

The Frightened Attack

Bear Fire

True Stories
from Experience

My Boat Ride

- Sally Duny / Gabe Duny

The Excitement of the Bear

- Theresa Shorty / Palassa Sergie

My Grandmother's Story

- Irene Evan / Flora M. Evan

The Frightened Attack

- Marlene Papp

An Unexpected Bear Hunt

- Carol Manumik / Henry S. Manumik

Big Bear

- Leslie Hunter / Leslie Hunter Jr.

Bear Experience

- James Edison / Tina Papp

The Lucky Black Bear

- Carol Manumik / La Verne Manumik

A Bear that Visited

- Martha Evan / Barbara Andrew

 

 

Bear Fire
Stories and Poems
about Bears

by Marshall High School
Language Arts Classes
Spring, 1992

 

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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  
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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