 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.
20,000 Feet Under The
Sea
One day I got a call from my friend Golova in
Mexico and he said that he just invented something new and he wanted
me to go down and take a look at it. He said that he would pay my way
down, so I said yes. When I got there he showed me his invention. He
called it a submarine. It looked like a fish that was 150 feet long.
It was made completely of metal. I asked him if it was safe and he
told me to quit worrying. We got on and climbed down inside. I asked
him where we were going and he said we were going around the world. I
told him to let me get off first, but he said we were already on our
way to Australia.
On our first day under the sea I was scared. We
ate things that he and his men caught from the sea. We had some
seaweed and some lobster. After I got used to being under the water
he showed me the rest of the submarine. We went to the front and he
showed me things I'd never seen before. I asked him how far we were
under the sea and he told me that we were farther down than any man
had ever gone before. He said that we were 15,000 feet under the sea
and that we were at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
When we were starting to get low on supplies we
stopped at a little island out in the Pacific and got some food and
water. I was happy to get out of the submarine and get some fresh air
on the little island. There were some natives on the island and they
knew my friend. Golova told the natives that we were alright and that
we just needed some fresh water and fruit. The island was really
cool. There was sand and palm trees everywhere. There were some
really cool animals and some birds too. Golova showed me around the
island and when we got back we went to the submarine and started
towards Australia again.
It took us about a week to reach Australia from
the island. When we got to Australia we stopped about half a mile
from the beach and Golova took a boat the rest of the way. They left
me behind in the submarine with some guys who were assigined to watch
me because Golova was afraid I might tell someone about his
invention. They asked me instead if I wanted to go under the sea with
them to get more food. I really wanted to know how they did that, so
I said yes. They brought me into a hidden room and they helped me put
on a special suit that was really heavy. They strapped an air tank to
my back and then they let me jump through a hole in the bottom of the
sub. It took a while for me to reach the bottom of the ocean floor,
and when I got there I waited for the rest of the crew to come down.
Then we started to look around for some sharks. They told me to stay
between them just in case a shark decided to attack us. The rest of
the crew had spears and a type of gun that worked underwater. I was
scared for awhile because we saw a couple of sharks, but they were
only little ones. After awhile I started to get used to the sharks
around us. But when the guys killed a couple of them we went back to
the sub. I was wondering how we were going to get back into the
submarine, but a guy lowered a cable and pulled me up into it's
belly. When we got back inside we ate some seaweed and other food we
got from the ocean.
When Golova and his crew came back to the
submarine we started towards Africa. On the way we stopped at some
little islands to get some water and fruit and other things. But
after we got the supplies we broke down and had to spend the night
back on the island. Golova said that the island was uninhabited and
we were the only ones there. Later that night the engine crew came
ashore and told us they had finished working on the engines and that
we could continue towards Africa. But Golova and I were tired so we
spent the night on the island with some of the other men.
Early in the morning I was the first one up
because I thought I heard some voices. I took a walk and saw some
smoke coming from the top of the island. I ran and woke the others
up, and Golova said maybe there were some savages living on the
island. We checked it out and found there were some cannibals on the
island. They were just getting up and starting to move around. We ran
back down the hill to get our stuff, then quietly took off with the
boat. When we got to the submarine we looked back and saw that the
savages were coming after us in their dugout canoes. We got our
rifles and went up on deck and shot at them. When they turned around
we took off.
It wasn't long before we had some more mechanical
problems. We thought the propeller was stuck or that maybe a shaft
was broken. We started to sink really fast and after a long time we
hit the bottom. The depth gauge said that we were 20,000 feet under
the sea. Golova said that we were the deepest that any man had ever
gone before and that the submarine was almost ready to break. It took
the engine crew a couple of hours to fix the broken shaft, then we
started up again. We took off very slowly, and we only started to
speed up when we got closer to the surface.
It took us about five days to get to Africa. When
we got there we only stoped for supplies and took off again. After
that we had to cross the Atlantic Ocean and then go around the tip of
South America where it was really stormy at the surface of the ocean.
Then we went really speedily to Mexico. When we got back to Golova's
place, he asked me if I wanted to go on the next trip with him? I
said,"No, I'm ready to go back home. I miss my family! "But before I
left for Alaska, he told me not to tell anyone about his invention.
"Sure, anything you say," I said, "as long as I don't have to ever
again go 20,000 feet under the sea!"
By Willie Paul
Fitka III
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 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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