 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.
Adventures Under the
Sea
It was 1763 when we left civilization to discover
the very depths of the sea. Charlotte, Rose, Lois and I left the
surface of the earth and sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in a
vessel we called the Blossom.
After three and a half years of building the
Blossom we finally got away from the horrible world that lay just
above the surface. Once under the sea, though, we found we still had
some things inside the Blossom that needed to be fixed. But they were
all just little things that could be fixed during our voyage. Finally
we sank to the bottom and the room filled with light as blue as the
sky above. Then as we went further down the light got dim and we had
to turn on an artificial light.
When we were at the bottom we saw millions of
creatures we had never seen before. We were all awestruck. Lucky we'd
brought our cameras and drawing paper. When I glanced at Charlotte
she looked amazed, so I walked over to her. Just as I was about to
ask what it was she was looking at through the window I saw a large
animal with stringy looking things hanging off its body. "That thing
looks like jelly-jelly fish," said Rose. And we all started giggling
at the thought of jelly fish. Then we saw more of them and we thought
it would be cool to name the creature "jelly fish."
That whole day we had a great time exploring the
floor of the ocean. It was hard to tell when it got dark on the
surface so we had to use our watches. We promised ourselves that we
would get a clock for the lounge when we got back to dry land. When
it got late we went to bed and slept peacefully all night.
In the morning when we awoke we were floating on
the surface. We all wondered how we got there? Then we finally saw
that the pressure in the engine had gone down during the night and we
floated back up to the surface. We stayed up there for a while and
looked around with the scope we'd invented. We saw lots of land that
we'd never seen before. The land was beautiful and looked like it was
deserted, so we decided to go ashore and check it out.
The land turned out to be very much like some of
the Alaskan cities that I'd read about. There were many green trees
and lots of wild animals that roamed the forest floor. As we walked
deeper and deeper into the forest we started hearing a beat that
sounded like our own heart beat. When we went deeper in the forest we
saw a huge clearing that was filled with Native people. "These must
be the Native people of this island. Keep low, you girls," said
Charlotte. Lois and Rose were giggling at the way the Natives were
moving around on the ground. "Shut up you girls!" Charlotte
whispered. "We're going to get caught spying, so keep quiet!" I
added.
Without our knowing it a camouflaged Native
sneaked up behind us and scared us. We were so scared we didn't care
which way we ran to get away. "I don't want to die!," exclaimed Rose.
"We aren't going to die," yelled Charlotte. "I hope not," said Lois.
We ran till we thought we lost the sneaky Native, but suddenly there
was a big log in our path, and we had to climb it to get over it.
When we got to the top of the high log we peered down into the trees
and we made sure the Native wasn't follwoing us. The land seemed like
it stretched for miles. There were endless trees and the ocean looked
like it had no end.
After we admired the land and ocean, we continued
back to the sub. Meanwhile the tide had come up and we had to swim to
get to the Blossom. Then we took it down to the bottom of the ocean
floor where it was easier for Captain Rose to drive.
After going down underwater we followed a school
of fish until the water got too shallow for us to move ahead anymore.
When we surfaced we noticed that we were on the coast of Alaska. "That must've been an Alaskan Native village that we saw back there!"
Lois shouted. "Uh... yeah," answered Charlotte. Then we all looked at
a map to see where we really were. Sure enough, we were in southern
Alaska where the coastal Yupiks lived. And there were so many
different things there, and so many different species of fish. There
were also large sea mammals that we named whales. And everything was
so beautiful there. "We should stay here and meet the Natives," I
said to the girls. "Maybe we could learn about their way of life and
how they live off the land," I added. "That wouldn't be such a bad
idea. And we could teach them new things, about the Blossom, and how
to build things," Lois said.
Our final decision was to stay and live with the
Natives in southern Alaska, even though their lives were as
complicated as living in one of the bigger cities. After a year or so
they finally accepted us into their village, and there we lived
almost happier ever after.
Cheryl
Hunter
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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