 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.
Raven Finds
Water
Long ago there was a great drought
over the land. There was no water anywhere. All the creeks and
streams were dried up. Someone had to do something about it. Raven
rose to the occasion and volunteered to look for water. He knew the
Island Spirit at Hazy Island had water but no one knew where it was.
The water was well hidden.
Raven started out for the island in
his canoe. His intention was to steal the water from the Island
Spirit. When he had paddled about half way out, a dense fog set in.
He lost his bearings and waited for the fog to lift. The sun could
not dispel the
fog. Raven was wondering what to do,
when the Island Spirit paddled up to him in
his canoe. "You should not be out
here," he told Raven. "There is nothing on the island and you could
be delayed by weather for a long time. There is no water out there,"
he told Raven. "Don't be crazy. Turn back."
After the Island Spirit left him,
Raven made a turn as if he was turning back, but not for long as he
headed for the island using the dim outline of the sun for his
bearing. Raven soon heard the surf on the island. He came to a bit of
sandy beach where the Island Spirit came down to meet him on the
beach. He welcomed Raven to share his home. While there, Raven
pretended to be thirsty, and was, in fact, very thirsty. But the
Island Spirit kept his water well hidden.
Raven was tough and could stay on to
find where the Island Spirit kept the water hidden. He kept a
watchful, waiting policy and he began to think up schemes to find the
water.
One day the Island Spirit was lying
beside the fire warming his back and he fell asleep. While he was
sleeping, Raven went out to the rookery and gathered some bird guano.
When he came back, Spirit was still asleep so Raven very carefully
rubbed the guano on the Spirit's garment. LIe woke Spirit up and told
him that he smelled very bad. Spirit had been gathering eggs and he
assumed that he had gotten the guano on this garment that way. Raven
told him over and over, "Take a bath, take a bath!"
Spirit made preparations to take a
bath. He got his water container ready and started out. In the
confusion, he had forgotten that he had told Raven there was no
water. Raven was now spying on Spirit to see where he went for water.
Spirit went some distance from his home and stopped under an
overhanging cliff, covered with float moss. There was the water
hole.
Raven now knew where the water was
and made preparations to steal it from Island Spirit. Early in the
morning he left the home very quietly, taking along a water basket.
He went to the water hole and had a long drink of water. He was very
thirsty. Then he filled the water basket, took it in his beak and
flew off to themainland where there was a great
drought. Raven sprayed the water from his beak all over the land and
in the sky. It started to rain and the streams were running again.
Raven had saved the country.
Robert and Nora Cogo
 
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 |
|
