 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.
Dotson' Sa, Great Raven Makes
The World
A very, very long time ago, giant
animals lived in the world and there was no such thing as mankind.
They were all big and could talk to each other and use magic. There
were even some animals which no longer live on earth. One day Dotson'
Sa, Great Raven, said to Raven, "Make a large raft."
So Raven made a large boat. It took a
long time because it had to be very big. When Raven was finished,
Dotson' Sa told him it wasn't big enough.
"You must build it bigger." he
said.
When it was finished, it began to
rain. At first it rained only a little and Dotson' Sa instructed
Raven to gather all of the animals in pairs. Raven gathered the
animals and food for them. It was very difficult but he did it
anyhow.
Once all of the animals were on the
raft, it started to rain very hard. The whole world was soon flooded
and only those animals on the raft were left in the world.
When it stopped raining Raven asked
some seagulls to fly in every direction in search of land. They flew
away and returned saying how there was no land in sight. There was
only water!
After a while the flood was almost
gone. Raven told Muskrat to swim down to the ocean floor to make an
island. The muskrat, who was really quite large, dived down and
started piling up the mud from the bottom. He kept this up until land
appeared.
Dotson' Sa used his magic and made
berries, trees, and plants to cover the land. When he had done this,
lakes and ponds were left where there had been low spots in the land.
Next, Great Raven made rivers. He made them so that they flowed both
ways! On one side the river ran down to the sea, and on the other it
flowed up towards the mountains!
Later, though, he decided that it was
too easy to travel and so he made it so that rivers only went down to
the sea.
Now that the flood was gone and there
was land, Dotson' Sa decided to make man. He created him from stone
but because he was made of rock, man would never die and so Great
Raven decided to make him from clay instead.
After he had made man, he made woman
so that they could be married and have children. Raven wanted a wife
so he tried to marry one of the women but the men took her away from
him. This made Raven mad, so he took some dried leaves and crushed
them into a large bag. He took the bag and went to where the people
lived and opened it. Out flew millions of mosquitoes which still
pester and bite mankind because Raven wasn't allowed to marry a
woman.
Now Raven had created the whole
world. That is why he is never hunted because
he made everything.
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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