 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.
Hope 2097
I'd been gone a long time from Marshall, and when
I returned I started to think back about what my great grandfather
used to always talk about--change in the environment. He died in 2079
when I was eight years old. The day before he died, he said, "I've
told you this a lot, but you should know I mean it. The environment
is changing. Always pay attention to what is happening around you.
It'll affect you sooner or later." As I walked along Pllcher Road I
noticed that a lot of things were different since I left eight years
ago. A couple of apartment buildings had been built back in what used
to be the tundra. Also, a couple of my old friends owned a
solar-powered snow machine rental place and had about 25 different
new and used snow machines parked out front for rent. There was also
a dealership where you could buy and rent solar-powered along with
the old fossil-fuel-powered cars or trucks. The population here in
Marshall is about 50,000 and almost every family who can afford one
owns a car or truck or new advanced snow machine. But snow machines
can only be ridden on the edges of the city on the tundra and in the
little wilderness that is left.
Speaking of wilderness, since I hadn't been near
it for a long time, I rented a snow machine and drove up toward
Pilcher Mountain. The city went all the way up to the base of the
mountain, so I drove up as far as I could, then stopped the machine
and started to hike to the top. I remembered my Uncle Wayne used to
hike like this. When I was in high school he used to try to get me to
go to the top. One day I got so tired of him teasing me that I didn't
have the stamina, I raced him to the top. Of course, he won, but I
was glad I went up.
This time on the way up the country still looked
beautiful from a distance and, since it was in the evening, the sun
was just going down and the river looked really peaceful. But from
the top of the mountain things looked different. With my binoculars,
I could see a lot of trash and most of the trees in my great
grandpa's pictures were gone. When I looked down at the river I could
see it was very polluted. And when I glassed the surrounding tundra
areas, there was trash scattered there too. Then I started feeling
guilty that in the four years after I graduated from college and won
the $2 million lottery, I had stayed away from Marshall too long. I
could have come home and helped the city out, but instead I traveled
to places like France and what's left of California and just enjoyed
myself.
Right then I decided I'd do something about the
mess. I went home, got on my computer and typed up a petition. I
printed up 200 copies and used my rented snow machine to hang them up
at the malls, arcade centers and other public areas. The petition
asked for the city to hire people to go out into the surrounding
tundra areas, including Pilcher Mountain, and to pick up trash there.
Within two weeks I had 6,500 signatures. Then I appeared at the next
city council meeting and presented my idea. Most of the people on the
committee agreed. I volunteered my services and they put me in
charge. After only a month, all the trash on the tundra and Pilcher
Mountain which we could find was gone. We put the trash in the city
dump and burned it in the smokeless incinerators. My next project was
to get out petitions to clean up the polluted river, but that is a
whole different story.
Rose Lynn
Fitka
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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