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Yup'ik RavenMarshall 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 RAVEN

Once there was this Raven who was strolling along the shore line kicking mussels. This was where he the Raven was born, and he was a trickster. He was taking his stroll when the tide was low. And when he reached a place near the water's edge he was just about to kick another mussel when the mussel caught his leg and dug down into the sand. But while the Raven was trying to shake the mussel off his stuck foot the tide started getting higher.

Pretty soon the tide reached him and the water began to rise to his body. When the tide reached his neck he started to cry out to the mussel. "Mussel! Mussel! let me be! If you do I will pay you beck with my cousin's kayak. "The mussel answered, "I don't use those things".

So he yelled again, " Mussel! Mussel! let me go! Mussel! Mussel! let me be! I will pay you back with my other wife. "Really? the bused said. Yes, Really I will give you my other wife if you will let me go.

And all OF a sudden the haven was able to move his feet just a little. The mussel was starting to let him go. But the mussel still didn't believe him completely. So the Raven kept on promising him his wife again and again.

Until finally the big birds legs came free and he started walking as quicklv as he could through the water back to the shore line.

When he got there he was really wet. But then the sun came out and his feathers began to dry again. So it is that the Raven escaped the mussel by begging him. For the Raven was a trickster.

Story by Mary Uttereyuk

Told to Michael J. Jr.

THE RAVEN

The Raven

Mary Uttereyuk/Michael J. Jr.

Arctic Terns

Agnes Albert/Herbert Kaganak

Down Feathers

Francis Akuchak/Marie Hunter

Spring Birds

Nathan Kaganak/Norma Charlie

Snipers and Swallows

Tom Tunutmoak/Aaron Kaganak

Loons

Agnes Aguchak/Stella Walker

"The Lying Eye"

Tom Tunutmoak/Laura Hunter

Long Legs

Agnes Aguchak/Matilda

 

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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