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.

 

 

 

 

The First and Last Time I Saw a Moose

 

The first and last time I saw a moose was this past summer (1998) when I went on a boat ride to Kwik with Roy, Gail, Aaron, Scott, Art, Ardiss, Gerilyn and Myron. We were out boatriding for about three hours, and it was really boring because the only animal we saw was a beaver. We weren't out hunting because we had no gun, and, since we had our fishing rods and reels, we parked the boat a little inside Kwik and began fishing. We stayed at one spot for maybe 20-30 minutes, but when nobody caught anything we decided to take a little boat ride deeper into the slough, then go home.

We were all being lively, not thinking about anything, when Gail said, "Hey, right there!" in a really excited voice. Everyone became silent and looked toward where her finger was pointing. We didn't see anything because we were too slow. After that everyone was quiet as Roy started moving slowly into the slough.

About 10 minutes later we saw a young bull and cow moose eating leaves. I only saw the young bull's head because the grass was so tall, but I was still excited because that was the first time I had ever seen a moose. No one in the boat wanted to sit down after that, so we were all standing up as we quietly looked around for more moose.

While going in further, Roy couldn't see which way he was going, and our heads almost got knocked off by a tree that was hanging really low from the bank. I think it was Aaron or Gail who looked up at the last moment and saw the tree. They shouted, "Hey watch out for that tree!" Roy quickly looked ahead, turned really fast, and everyone ducked down. Roy turned so quickly in the narrow slough that I almost fell down.

We didn't see anything else going in, so everyone was sitting down while we were on our way out. We didn't think we were going to see anything else when suddenly we heard Gail say, "Right there!" again. Everyone was quiet and looked to the right of the boat. Lying in the grass on the bank was a calf. It looked like it had just gotten out of the water and was resting. After a few seconds though, it got up and took off.

I felt really good that evening because I finally saw a live moose. Now I can better understand all the stories people tell me about moose hunting and moose sightings. It was really exciting to see them.

By: Rose Lynn Fitka

So Cool!	- Tatiana Sergie
Richard's First Moose	- Willie Paul Fitka III
A Blood Trail But No Moose	- Maurice Turet
Close Enough to Hit Them with an Oar	- Tassie Fitka
My Dream Moose	- Kimberly Fitka
My First Experience with a Moose	- Kimberly Fitka
The First and Last Time I Saw a Moose	- Rose Lynn Fitka
Many Moose in a Day	- Cheryl Hunter
No Stumps!	- David Andrew
Moose from an Airplane	- Jolene Soolook
Good Luck at Big Bend	- Joel Isaac

 

(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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