 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.
Why Ravens Live around
Villages
When Raven made people he gave them
some rules to live by. If anyone broke his rules he would punish them
or give them bad luck. One important rule was never to waste food.
People always did a pretty good job of following that rule until one
day a careless Eskimo hunter by the name of Qun came to a big Eskimo
village called Takchak. He was always greedy to catch animals and
every time he went hunting he always caught too many animals or
non-edible ones just for the fun of it. The animals he didn't eat he
would throw in the dump or anywhere around the village.
One day Raven was flying around
Takchak looking for a good nesting tree when he saw carcasses of dead
animals lying around without a bite taken from them for food. Raven
got upset at this. He called the village people for a meeting in the
qasgiq. During the meeting he asked who the person responsible for
doing such a thing as this was. An elder said it was Qun. Raven
waddled over to Qun and told him to stand next to him. "Are you the
one that's wasting food by leaving the dead animals to rot?" Raven
asked in a mean, deep voice. "Ahhh, yes,." Qun said, in a soft voice
filled with shame. "Never are you to waste food again because next
time something will happen!" Raven said and then flew out the
skylight.
Qun obeyed Raven because he was
afraid that Raven would give him bad luck. But after a while Qun got
careless again and decided to kill a ptarmigan just for the fun of
it. He killed it and hid it under the trunk of a tree without knowing
that Raven had been watching him all along. Suddenly Raven swooped
down from the sky and landed by Qun. Then he threw some dust on
Qun's body and said, "I warned you and now you have to pay for
what you did." Raven flew to all the houses of the village and told
them not to give Qun any food even if he was starving or he would put
a curse on them too.
A week went by and Qun was starving
because he hadn't caught any animals since Raven had thrown dust on
him. He didn't bother to ask the villagers for food because Raven had
told them not to give him any food or they would have the same
punishment as Qun. The next day Qun died, regretting that he had
wasted all that food.
From this day forth Ravens still hang
around the villages or their dumps to watch for anyone who wastes
food.
By:
Chris Fitka
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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