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.

 

 

 

 

Sue the Turkey

 

My name is Sue and I am five years old. I think I am getting pretty old because I don't have a lot of energy. Anyways, I live in South Dakota on a very large farm. There's about 500 other turkeys that live with me. I have many friends, but one special friend, Cola. She is the same age as I am. The only reason I am not dead is because I am used to lay the eggs. Probably after I die though, I'll be eaten by people who want to eat a fancy dinner.
Every week, I lay one egg which I brood until it hatches. Then our owner raises the chicks, and whenever they're big and fat enough, they are killed just to please those killers. I guess Thanksgiving and Christmas are the saddest times of my life because I see so many of my friends taken away. They don't kill them in front of us but,from five years of living, I know they get killed and sold to people who think those holidays are the happiest times of the year. I just think of all my babies that have been killed. It's pretty sad how they've killed almost everyone of my friends. But in a way I'm pretty used to it by now. Some things keep me busy, like staying with Cola.
Cola is my best friend. She's five years old and is also used for laying eggs. Whenever we have free time we play tag and hide and seek, or we just sit around and tell stories. Sometimes I go over and sleep near her on her roost which is across from mine. The best part of the day for us is probably eating. Everyday we eat grain which is either corn, wheat, oats or millet. Sometimes one of my friends gets more than I do, so we share each other's food. Most times we eat once a day but when our owner is in a good mood, we eat twice a day. I really enjoy living here because I won't get killed for big Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners.

By: Darcy Kameroff

How Dog Got His Big Ears	A Dog I Am	A Day In The Life Of A Dog	My Life Story
A HUSKY I am	Too Old to Play	A Dog for a Day	Dream Dog
A Day For Little Legs		Ever Since I was Born...

 

The Day My Life Ended as a Fox	If I Were A Fox	A Fox I Am	PARANOID
Sense of Where You Are	Through the Eyes of a Fox	A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FOX	In The Life of A Fox

THROUGH THE EYES OF A TURKEY	Sue the Turkey	Till Death Becomes Thee	Through the Eyes of a Wild Turkey
Eye of a Turkey	A Turkey's Life	My Crazy Life as a Turkey	Through the Eyes of A Turkey
A Turkey I Am

TIME FOR A CHANGE	OUR LOST LAND	A Killer Bee is Who I Am	Killer Bees Attack Humans
A Bee I Am	Channel Bee News	KILLER BEES OF AMERICA	Attack Of The Killer Bee's

 

OUR SCARY EXPERIENCE	The Witch...	One Cold Dark Night	Freaking Out
One Scary Night…	A Crazy Fishing Trip With Norma	The Night Of Halloween	House of Halloween

 

…and
some
stories…

How the Chicken Got Its Name	How The Ptarmigan Changed The Seasons	How Moose Got Its Antlers	How Dogs Started to Bark...
How the Fox Got His Red Coat	How Raven Got Its Black Feathers	How The Bear Lost His Tail	Kidnapped Daughter
Of Wolf and Man	Why Wolves Are So Big	The Monkey Man	Ircaqurluk: The Yupik Teacher
The Old Woman Statue	How the Red Fox got its Colors	The First Bear	The Last of the Thunderbirds
The Bear Skin	How The Raven Got Black	Wolf Spots	The Bear and the Two Weasles

 

 

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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