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.

 

 

 

 

MY LOUSY SUMMER JOB

This summer I was working down at the fish plant for a lousy $7.50 an hour. The most memorable opening was the first twelve hour opening because there were a lot of fish. Our job was to unload the fish out of the fishing boats with a large crane which was operated by our boss Nick Duny. We had to throw the fish into the metal boxes and then fill them with ice. After a while working with this process, it got a little slower and my back was starting to get tired. Soon it came to the point where minutes were feeling like hours and the fish were as heavy as elephants. As I was working I was beginning to ask myself if I was working too hard for this amount of money. When I got too tired I would go to Nick Duny and ask him if I could use the forklift to haul the metal boxes of fish to a decent spot so they wouldn't be in the way. We would take turns using the forklift and impatiently wait for our own turn so we could rest. We would also look at the long line of boats which meant an average of about two totes per boat. We would stare at the line exhausted and often cussing silently inside ourselves.

Finally when there were less boats a sigh of relief came from all of us who worked unloading the fish. Then more boats would come in and we would get mad and complain to ourselves. We would peek at the boats every once in a while wishing there was another place to sell the fish so we could be done faster.

Finally we were on the last boat. We took our time unloading because there were no more boats after this. Then we iced up the fish again and loaded them on the Kathleen and the Kimberly Ann. It wasn't much more of a picnic than loading fish into the metal boxes.

Finally, we were all done after spending an eternal eleven hours at the fish plant. The next challenge ahead of me was to walk all the way up to my house without dropping from exhaustion.

By: Chris Fitka

Camping At Ohogamiut (Ohog)	- Lois Moore
Wrong Way to Cuilnguq	- Kathy Duny
RAHI, a Wonderful Experience in Fairbanks	- Darcy Kameroff
Three Nights in The Wilderness	- Maureen Fitka
My Lousy Summer Job	- Chris Fitka
A Sad but Enjoyable Summer	- Carmen Pitka
This Summer's Hectic Job	- Fred Alstrom
My Weird Trip to Cuilenguq!	- Sophie Ann Moore
Working for S.Y.E.T.P	- Tanya Peter

 

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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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