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Yup'ik RavenMarshall 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.

 

 

 

 

 

When I was Young

 

Then I was small I never used to go hunting alone. I only went seal hunting with my dad and my uncle. This was along long time ago. Since I haven't forgotten, I'm going to tell you about how I used to go hunting.
When I went seal hunting I used to go with others. And in the summer time when we caught anyseals we'd bring them home to our mothers who would cut them up with their knives. Instead of eating the meat right away they hung strips of meat up and let them dry. When they won't dry any more because of the wet weather in September and October they start freezing the seal meat in their underground freezers,

It seems they don't catch seals as much nowadays since we are living more like white men and are starting to buy our foods from stores.

During past winters I used. to go out to the edge of the ice pack and hunt on the open water. Sometimes I would get stuck way out in the ocean because of the floating ice and I would have to pull my boat us on the ice.

I have had to leave boat one or two times on the ice pack when coming back home because there was too much slush ice on the river, hut when the weather was nice we used to hunt and catch food around here on the ocean. And when we caught anything we then put it in the freezers or did other things to it to make it very tasty. And that's how I used to go hunting when I was young.

 

By: Nathan Kaganak as told to Stella Walker

When I was Young 

The Fisherman and the Yukcuaraq
Kuviasta-llu Yukcuaraq-llu

Joe Kaganak

The Eiders

Teddy Sundown

"The Sea-Bear that turned into a Seal"

Michael Uttereyuk Sr./Michael Uttereyuk Jr.

When I was Young

Nathan Kaganak/Stella Walker

Miklemni

Nathan Kaganak

The Whale That Changed Into a Wolf

Irene Kaganak/LouAnn Aguchak

The Mouse Who Jumped
Uggnarayaq Qeckatalera

Teddy Sundown/Norma Charlie

Danger Out There

Bruno Kasayuli, Sr.

Piciatun Pissuutuli

Elizabeth Kasayuli

  Student Stories of the Bering
-fiction-

Student Stories of the Bering
-nonfiction-

  

Stories by Elders and Others

 

Poems of The Sea

 

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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