 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.
White Raven turns
Black
In the beginning of time Raven was a
beautiful white bird who sang beautiful songs, but he also had a bad
side of him. He often thought he was the best and challenged others
to prove that he was better than the rest at anything he
did.
One summer day he sat and thought
about an evil scheme to trick the wise old Owl who always told Raven
that he was nothing but a big show off. So Raven told Owl he could
gather more food than Owl and challenged him to a race to see who
could gather the most food. Since Raven was a lazy bird, he planned
to steal Owl's food while owl was asleep. And since Raven hunted
during the day and Owl hunted at night, Raven thought that in the
dark he would have a good chance of stealing Owl's food. The race was
to begin the next day.
Raven gathered food all day, often
stealing from others smaller than him or stealing from bigger animals
when they weren't watching. But Owl kept an eye on Raven all day
because he knew this bird was up to something. Towards sunset Raven
knew it was time to deceive Owl and steal his food to win the bet. He
found a camp fire and rolled in the ash to hide his white feathers,
not knowing that Owl knew what he was doing. Seeing this, the wise
old Owl put a spell on him saying that he would become whatever he
thought he was. Meanwhile Owl filled up his nest with rocks instead
of food.
That night Owl sat on a tree branch
and watched as the ash-covered Rave slowly crept up to his nest and
started eating the rocks. When he finally realized he was eating
rocks he tried to cough them up, making a "caw caw" sound. It was
then that Owl's spell came into effect and Raven became a black bird
who couldn't sing beautiful songs anymore, but could only call "caw
caw" and had to spend the rest of his life stealing his next
meals.
And Owl was right, Raven was nothing
but a show off.
By:Ellen
Alstrom
Interviewed by: Fred Alstrom
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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