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.

 

 

 

 

Nick's Big One!

"Two years ago Dennis and I went to Ten Mile below Mt. Village to commercial fish. It took a lot of time to get ready and when we were finally ready we went down. We must have used thirty gallons of gas just to get to where we were to camp. Then we set up our tent, unloaded our boat and got our net ready. After we were finished setting up camp, the first commercial fishing period started and we went out.

We fished for at least three hours. We didn't catch very many fish, but we paid for our gas. The fish prices in Y-1 were considerably higher than in Marshall, and there were so many boats around that we didn't know exactly where to fish.

Before the second period we moved our camp to where Alex Nick and the other Russian Mission fishermen were camping. There were seven tents in that camping area. I had to repair my net there since it had some holes from getting snagged.

We went to the drifting spot an hour before the period opened. I still hadn't really learned the area by that time but I was ready to try anything. After two drifts I understood why the other fishermen weren't fishing in my area. So, after getting only two fish in two drifts I was ready to try anywhere.

I drove up above the island where we had been drifting and set the net there. Dennis was my driver while I would set. After setting the net I took over driving. About half an hour later I decided to check how deep the water was with my oar because I had left my depth sounder at home because a part was missing. To my surprise, the water was only four feet deep!

I told Dennis that we'd better pull the net in before we got stuck. While we were pulling it in, we saw this huge King in the net. It was barely caught, with the webbing stuck only in its mouth. I quickly wrapped the webbing around it and told Dennis to hand me the gaff. Then I gaffed it and pulled it in. This huge King weighed about sixty pounds! Then we pulled the net in some more and caught a forty pounder. Those were the only two Kings we caught on that drift, but they sure were worth the effort at over two dollars a pound!"

Nick Isaac

Too Heavy	- Tom Andrew
The Big Fish That Got Away	- Clara Shorty
A King Salmon with Roy, But a Pike by Myself	- Gail Fitka
The Big One That Didn't Get Away	- Richard Olsen
My Biggest Fish	- Olga Soolook
Nick's Big One!	- Nick Isaac
One Easy Fish	- Terri Manumik
A Big Fish From Hawaii	- Guy Sandlin
Annie's Clearwater Pike	- Annie Hunter

 

Fishy Research	Student Whoppers	Parent Whoppers	Elder Whoppers
Staff Whoppers	Adventures Under the Sea	Global Warming	The Crystal Ball--Imagining how it will be

 

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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