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.

 

Blue Eyes

 

Characters: Laura Hunter--Narrator

Martina Prince--The Female Bird

Stella Walker--The Eyes

 

Setting: A small female bird is flying around looking for a good tree to build her nest and lay her eggs in. She finds it near a river.

 

Narrator: A long time ago there was a small female bird who was looking for a tree to build a nest and lay her eggs in. She flew around for many days but could not find a tree that suited her, until one day she flew over the tundra and saw a tree that she really liked.

Bird: "Ah, ha!" she said. "There it is!" "The tree I've been looking for." "This is the spot where I want to make my nest."

 

Narrator: Soon after she started building the nest, she began feeling uncomfortable with the branches all over her, so she took out her eyes and told them to watch carefully for anything that might harm her. As she started building again, her eyes began to play tricks on her. They sang a false warning song twice, saying

 

 

Eyes: Qalaara, qalaraa-aa, caag makut, qiag makut, arigpagait kuk, qalaraa.

Narrator: As soon as she heard the song, she felt around for her eyes, and when she found them, she put them back on and looked around to see if there was anyone or anything coming. But after looking around, she didn't see anything. So she took out her eyes and went back to work again. Not long afterwards, her eyes again began to sing a warning song saying:

 

Eyes: "Qalaara, qalaraa-aa, caag makut, qiag makut, arigpagait kuk, qalaraa."

Bird: "This time I don't believe you." "Don't try and pull that dirty trick on me, and, just watch for danger," the female bird said.

 

Narrator: But after a while, the bird heard no noise at all coming from her eyes. So she felt around for them. But though she groped for a long time, she couldn't find them. They were gone. So what she did was search around till she found some berries, which she put in her eye sockets. And when she opened her eyes, everything was blue. (Her new eyes were blue berries). She never did find her real eyes, though. So she just continued to use the blue bersies for her eyes from that time on. That is why those small birds have blue eyes today.

 

The Trickster Mary Uttereyuk/Mike Uttereyuk

The Two Cranes Agnes Aguchak/Matilda Kasayuli

Blue Eyes

The Ugly Goose Martina Prince

 

 

Old Bird Stories

New Stories

Student Plays

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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