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.

 

 

 

 

Moose Fact Sheet

 

*The moose is the largest member of the deer family. Its scientific name is Alces alces.

*Moose are for the most part sort of a brownish color, though they can range from light beige to almost black.

*Moose are very large. It's best not to mess with them, especially during rutting season.

*Each year in Alaska, there are more moose-related deaths than bear-related deaths.

*Moose are herbivores, and it's a darn good thing they are. Otherwise there'd be even more moose-related deaths.

*The moose is the official State Animal of Maine.

*The moose is found all over the Northern Hemisphere, in Europe, Asia, and North America.

*Only the bull moose has antlers, and they fall off every winter. The cow has better things to do than grow silly appendages.

*The last words of Henry David Thoreau are reported to be, "Moose. Indian."

*The history of the name of the moose is confusing. Before the "discovery" of the New World, the Asian/European variety was called by names related to the English word elk. The North American elk, or wapiti, is an entirely different animal found only on this continent. So...ln Europe and Asia, an elk is a moose. In North America, an elk is a wapiti, and a moose is a moose.

*The word "moose" itself is derived from the Natik word moos, itself supposedly descended from the Proto-Algonquian mooswa, meaning "the animal that strips bark off of trees."

*Check out the following words for moose in different languages:

 

Language	Moose		Hebrew	tzvi americani
Algonquin	moz		Hungarian	jávorszarvas
Athabaskan	dineega		Inupiaq	tuttuvak
Chinese	milu		Italian	alce
Cree	moosa		Norwegian	elg
Danish	elg		Pig Latin	oosemay
Dutch	eland		Polish	los
English	moose		Portugese	alce
Finnish	hirvi		Romanian	elan
Flemish	eland		Russian	los’
French	orignal		Spanish	alce
German	Elch		Swedish	älg
			Yupik	tuntuvak

 

(Alces alces) The Moose

  

Moose Fact Sheet

 

Student Stories

 

Stories By Parents

 

Stories By Elders

 

Stories By Successful Hunters

 

Stories By School Staff

 

"If I were a Moose…"

 

Student Poems

 

 

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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