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.
My Drunk
Parents
One day when my mom and dad were
drinking they were drunk for two days. I was only 12 years old then
and the youngest one in the family. I also had an older brother and
sister, but they were gone and I was home alone.
While they were drinking my dad
started talking about something that made him mad. Then he started to
beat my mom. He beat her so hard I could hear it from my room. They
were loud and my mom was crying and trying to ask him why he was
beating on her. I went out to try and stop him but he wouldn't stop.
I wanted to call my older brother but he was out with his girlfriend,
and my older sister was on a trip with her classmates. I just was too
small to stop him.
He beat my mother for more then ten
minutes and when it stopped there was a lot of blood on the floor. My
mom had a big cut on her forehead and she had a nose bleed and her
face was black and blue. Just then my older brother came in and asked
what was going on? I told him that dad beat on mom for nothing. He
asked dad why he had done that and dad started crying and told him
that he was sorry and he wouldn't do it anymore. My mom was still
crying and I went to get a wet cloth from the bathroom and put
it on
her nose to stop the bleeding.
After things quieted down, my mom
said that it
was not the first time it had
happened, and that before we were born he had beat her twice as bad.
She said that he had broken her ribs and her nose. When she got up
from the floor and sat down at the table my older brother was still
mad and wanted to fight my dad. But then his girlfriend held him
back. My brother tried punching him but he missed and tried again.
Then he hit him right on the nose and my dad fell down on the floor.
He looked at him and asked what he did that for, and he told him it
was "for my mother your wife!" My dad got up and said, "Son you're
right, thank you for that." And he went into the living room and sat
down on the couch.
When my mom and dad were sober again
and everything was okay, they said, "No more drinks for us!" And,
believe it or not, neither of them ever drank again!
John
Tikiun
My name is
Kerry and I have
AIDS
(Now I'm dead!)
Going,
Going Gone!
Man and the
Environment
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 |
Marshall
Cultural Atlas