 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.
Feature News
A Good Moose
Season
The moose season started September 1, 1997, for
all the hunters on the upper and lower Yukon River.
Mike Duny, a hunter from Marshall, says that his
moose season was short but okay. It didn't take him long to catch a
moose the day he went out hunting with Roy Fitka. They went up to
Tucker's Slough above Russian Mission early in the afternoon. When
they reached their destination they saw two big bulls swimming across
the slough and waited until they got closer to the beach. When the
two bulls were close enough, they shot them, pulled the moose up the
beach and skinned them. Roy and Mike came home the following
day.
Fred Fitka's moose season was also good and he had
fun, he said. He went out with Willie Duny to Paimuit, located about
120 miles from Marshall, for a couple of days. He caught his moose a
day after Willie caught his. When Fred was hunting his moose they had
to run after it in the trees for a while. Fred and Willie couldn't
find it at first, so they had to camp. They were going to go in but
the grass was about 5' 7" and they couldn't see above their heads.
They stood on logs and still couldn't see. They waited until the next
day, and they finally found it in the cottonwoods. It took them seven
hours to pack the meat out from the cotton woods to Fred's
boat.
"This year's Moose season was alright, but there
were too many gnats and a lot of bugs," says Moe Duny, another
Marshall Hunter. He got his moose the first day the season opened in
Unit 21 at Big Bend. The first night he camped at Paimuit, and the
last three nights at Big Bend (Horse Island) about 5 miles below Holy
Cross. Moe and others had their camp below Nick Andrew Sr., Alvin
Owletuck Sr. and Joe Uzulook. After he caught his moose, he went home
and put the meat away for winter.
Kathy Duny
Tank Farm Being
Relocated
There are changes in store for the old tank farm.
Mas. Inc. and the City of Marshall plan to move the tank farm so that
it will be in compliance with State and Coast Guard regulations. They
plan to use the same tanks that Mas. Inc. already has and will start
on the project during the summer of 1998. Local people will work on
the project. They are going to use double walled fuel lines and they
will be all welded with no thread connections. They are going to work
with the Department of Environmental Conservation to make sure there
are no leaks. Also to ensure this they are going to put double line
dikes around each tank.
By Jonathan Boots
Willow Mine to be
Mined?
The old Willow gold mine has been up there since
the days of the gold rush in the early 1930's. It is located about
four miles above the Yukon River on Willow Creek on the other side of
Mt. Okumiak. According to Roberta Fitka, there was a guy interested
in developing the mine last year (1996). There are also some people
in Marshall who are interested in developing the mine. Some people
here voted for the new airport to be located on the other side of
Wilson Creek so they would have a free road closer to the mine. But
nobody is really sure where the airport's location is going to be. If
the state builds an airport on the other side of Wilson Creek they
might extend a road to the old mine. But they are still not quite
sure about anything.
One thing people are really concerned about is
whether there is mercury up at the old mine. If there is mercury up
there it could be very dangerous. The mine has been assayed for
valuable minerals, but so far geologists who did some tests last year
have found only iron ore.
The old mine is presently on Mas. Inc. Corporation
land. Some of the original miners used to own part of that land, like
Gene Tetinek and Bill AlIman. Bill AlIman had a claim up there and he
gave his building to the Mas. Inc. Corporation. Gene Tetinek gave his
house to the school in Marshall. All the people who once owned land
at the mine are now deceased. Nobody has any plans to sell or buy the
mine yet. If anyone wanted to buy the mine it would cost them a lot
of money, even though nothing valuable has been found up there
yet.
Lois Moore
Marshall Co-op Store
Extension
The purpose of the 20' x 30' extension at the
local Co-op Store is to increase and improve office space and also to
add water and sewer to the building. The whole project will cost
about $46,000. The costs are: $25,000 to get the lumber and materials
to Marshall, $10,000 in labor, and $11,000 to hook up the water and
sewer.
There are four guys from Marshall now working on
the Co-op extension. Leo Fitka, the foreman, is in charge of getting
the extension up, and he also assigns the laborers their different
jobs.
There are three laborers, and they will be changed
when they have worked for three weeks so more people can have a
chance to work in town. The manager of the Co-op Store, Willie Fitka,
says it will probably take only three to five weeks to complete the
extension because the workers are building it at such a fast
pace.
According to Willie, the Co-op is also going to
have a neon sign which will read "Fortuna Ledge Co-op Native
Store".
Charlotte Alstrom
Marshall's New Armory
The Alaska National Guard is building an armory on
the south side of the road going to the new dump site. It is located
right behind Leo Fitka's house and is to be used for storing supplies
and training National Guard soldiers.
The two men who are working on the armory are Tim
Mahoney and Dave Ward from Wasilla, Alaska. Tim and Dave are working
for Cook Inlet Construction Inc. They are staying at Hunter Sales
until the project is completed.
They started building the armory on September
16th, and they hope to complete the structure on November
15th.
The building is going to be heated by a monitor
heater and an oil-fired heater.
Tim says that he and Dave like it here because of
the friendly people and nice location.
Maurice Turet
Airport Update
The recent news on the airport project is that two
archeologists recently did surveys to determine if there is any
evidence of prior occupation. Somebody also said that state surveyors
drilled twenty-two feet down and still didn't hit any bedrock. Ray
Alstrom says there are no State requirements for the construction of
the airstrip on tundra. He says they have technology that allows
construction of the airport above the permafrost.
Before they build a bridge over Wilson Creek,
though, they have to do surveys on the salmon that spawn there and
they have to go through the Dept. of Fish and Game and the EPA to do
these. The kind of studies that have to be done are to see if the
bridge would interfere with fish spawning. Ray says that the
Department Of Transportation will be building the airport on the
other side of Wilson Creek because that is where it was chosen to be
built by the village. Land ownership problems prevent it from being
built above the present airstrip, even though that is a more
convenient place for it to be built.
Tatiana Sergie
Marshall Head Start
Begins
The Marshall Head Start began their school year on
September 10th, 1997. There are 18 students attending the Marshall
Head Start and they are: Nadia Fitka, Ryan Fitka, Daniel Fitka,
Kristie Alstrom, Shaun Alstrom, Shawna Pitka, Kaelyn Fitka, Freida
Sergie, Sophianne Sergie, Vassily Sergie Jr., Arthur Fitka II, Maxine
Fitka, Thomas Soolook Jr., Zachery Andrew, Beverly Owletuck, Allison
One, John Coffee and Darien Evan. Their teachers are Fran Evan and
Barbie Fitka-Duny.
The nine kids who are going to graduate this year
are the four year olds. They are: Shaun Alstrom, John Coffee, Darien
Evan, Aurthur Fitka, Maxine Fitka, Shawna Pitka, Frieda Sergie,
Sophianne Sergie and Ryan Fitka. They will all be five years old when
they graduate.
This year the Head Start teachers are teaching the
kids what their parents want them to learn, such as things about
their culture, sharing, listening, taking turns,following directions
and signging. One interesting topic that the kids are learning is
about their culture. Nick Isaac, Marshall School bilingual teacher,
is teaching them a few Yup'ik words, and the kids are enjoying it.
Another thing that the kids enjoy doing is coming up to the Big
school during play time to use the gym.
There are 18 students in the little red building
we call the Head Start, and two teachers who teach them what they
need to learn before they can become Kindergardeners. Nine of the 18
students will be graduating this year and Barb expects the same
amount, or more, of kids for the next school year.
Rose Lynn Fitka
Marshall Traditional
Council
Dolores Hunter is the Administrator for the
Marshall Traditional Council. The Marshall Traditional Council is
there to operate and maintain affairs that have to do with the
federal government, such as land, subsistence, human services and
certain aspects of education.
Dolores is working through the Marshall
Traditional Council on projects relating to the Indian Child Welfare
Act (ICWA), Small Tribes, Kuigpagmiut and the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
There are other people also working on each of
these projects except for the ICWA program. Sophie Tiffert is working
with the Small Tribes Program which tries to find employment for
local people. Jacob Isaac works with the Enviromental Protection
Agency (EPA) on a project to keep Marshall clean. No one has been
hired yet to work with the ICWA program which requires a lot of
family conflict resolution.
Tassie Fitka
Feature News
Editorial
Page
Guest
Editorial
Max's
Message from the Best Little
School on the Yukon
Whats Happenin' at
School?
Puzzle
Page
October
1997 Calendar
Comic
Page
Happy
Halloween
Dedications
Dear
Tat
Elders
Page
Look
To The Stars
Your Personal Horoscope
Did
You Know That...
Message
Page (in
pdf)
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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