 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.
A Summer of Adventures
My summer vacation was filled with camping,
fishing, cutting fish, babysitting and trying to dodge the
mosquitoes. The first week of June my family, grandparents and I
packed up our camping gear to move for a month upriver to dry fish
and commercial fish. We didn't have to pitch a tent because a tent
was left through the winter. My grandparents' house was being built,
but the first night it wasn't finished. So everyone had to squeeze
into the 12 x 14 tent for the first couple of nights.
My dad, grandpa and I would go out subsistence
fishing almost everyday to catch king salmon. Finally, we got lucky
and caught about 95 king salmon. After tackling the net load of fish,
we had to conquer the job of cleaning the fish. I had to wash the
slippery, slimy fish and try to control myself from not dropping them
back into the river. During the next few days, I was trapped into
babysitting my niece while my mom cut the fish. The fish took about
three days to cut because there are a lot of parts you have to cut
and hang on the poles.
During the next few weeks we watched the fish,
smoked them and kept them out of the rain. We took trips back and
forth to Marshall. We also went to the Gold Mine trail to gather some
plywood and some sheet iron to build our own house. My dad had to
build our own house because a couple of nights we had experiences
with black bears behind our tent. Our tent was right below a hill, so
we could hear the bears coming down the hill and trying to get to the
river. While I was sleeping in my grandparents' house one night, we
heard my mom, Anna and Mary Jane Shorty knocking on the door. They
were saying that a bear was trapped in the bear trap, and they could
hear it breathing really loud behind the tent. My dad retrieved his
gun from the boat, and my grandpa got his gun from his house. I
wanted to go out and see the bear, but my mom held me
back.
We heard about four gun shots. A few minutes
later, the two men came back satisfied that the bear was killed and
we could get a good night's sleep. The bear experience made my mom
and the others sleep in my grandpa's house. Since the bear wasn't
skinned and cut up right away, we had to give it to someone else's
dogs.
The days stretched into weeks, and the day came to
put all the dried fish away into buckets and the freezer. We had to
sort the fish, cut them into pieces and put them neatly in the
buckets to make as much fish fit in the buckets as possible. We put
away about five or six buckets and a lot of dog salmon which I had to
put into the freezer because my sister, Anna, and I only eat dog
salmon dryfish. When we were done putting the fish away, we moved
back to Marshall. I had to get packed for my trip to Germany. I
didn't know where I was placed in Germany. That worried me a whole
lot because I thought I was going to be put on a farm out in the
middle of nowhere. My dad and grandpa brought me down to St. Mary's
by boat. I left St. Mary's on a Beechcraft airplane and reached
Anchorage about three hours later. After locating my baggage, I went
to Continental Airlines. They were closed until half an hour before
the flight. While I was waiting I visited with my aunt and her
husband. I then checked my baggage all the way to Dulles
International in Washington, D.C. My flight had two stops in Seattle
and Denver. I reached my destination at Dulles around 4:30 P.M. the
next day. On July 18, I met the other 39 students traveling with me
to Germany. One hour before departing for Germany, I found out where
I was going to live for the next four weeks. I was placed in
Altenburg, Thuringia, (East) Germany. I was shocked, amazed, scared,
nervous and a lot of other things. Arriving in Frankfurt, Germany, we
waited for over an hour for our ride to Darmstadt. That's where my
summer vacation officially ended, because the following Monday I went
to a four week orientation and language course.
Flora M. Evan
Letter
From
Augusta L.
Bishop, Assistant Superintendent
Summer
Time Tails
By
The Marshall
Mustang
High
School Students
Summer
Time Tails
from the
Village
Summer Time Tails
By The
Marshall Mustang 8th Grade
Students
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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