 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.
Clara's Trip to Tern's
Wedding
"On June 2nd my family and I went
down the Yukon River to Emmonak and Alakanuk to attend Terri and Bill
Manumik's wedding. I was worried about going because this was only
Moses's third trip downriver. He wasn't sure of which route to
use.
Everything worked out great though
because Charlie and Alice Fitka were also going down to attend the
wedding. Charlie and Alice have traveled down every year to fish for
Herring.
About 20 miles down from Mt. Village
we came to a wide part of the Yukon River, and was it rough!!
Crossing from the north to the south side of the river was a very
scary ride. The front of our boat would tip forward so hard that all
we saw was water!! Then we would crest the wave and see for miles
around for about four seconds!! This lasted about two hours!! All my
children had big scared eyes!!!
About five miles up river from
Emmonak, Charlie Fitka's motor broke down, so we had to tow them into
Emmonak. Moses and Charlie weren't sure what the problem was, but we
made it to Emmonak. There we checked to see if David and Christine
Teganlakla were home, but they had already gone up to Marshall for
fish camp.
Later we had to go over to Alakanuk
to stay with our cousin, Ray Oney, and his wife, Ruth. They were
delighted to have us there because it was only our second visit to
Alakanuk.
The next day we went back to Emmonak
to attend Tern and Bill's wedding which was held at the Complex
building.
Tern and her maid of honor and flower
girls, Anna Irene, Debbie and Flora, and Bill's nieces and daughter
were all dressed in bright blue kuspaks. They were all so beautiful!
Bill and his best man, the ring bearer, and Tern's sister, Manian,
all wore white kuspaks with bright blue trim. It was
dazzling!!
It was a court wedding and Tern's
sister, Marian P. Okitkun, performed the marriage ceremony. There
were also guest speakers at the ceremony. These were Alex Bird and
Ray Waska, both elders. They had very good advice for young couples
courting, couples planning to get married, and married couples too.
Their message was to respect each other, work together to have a good
life, to always be considerate of each other, and to be sober and
drug free. They said that we were losing our young people, especially
our young men, by drunk driving both on roads and rivers. Alex Bird
said when a person dies by drowning while drunk driving his body goes
straight down to the bottom. They really wanted young people to heed
their advice because they are both sad at seeing young healthy lives
taken away by drugs and alcohol.
They had one more message, and it was
to both the moms and women in general. This concerned money. They
said we were to use the money we made to clothe, feed, and help our
children, parents, grandparents and our grown brothers and sisters if
they have need for money. This surprised me because I don't usually
see or hear of anyone in Marshall sharing their money with extended
families like they do with food we gather from the land. I think
that's where our cultural values and traditions ended and started to
fade away. We do need to start sharing again. I felt so good to hear
this advice, like someone still cared and wanted the best for
us.
Story by: Clara
Shorty
Interviewed by: Matt
Shorty
Student
Stories
Other
Student Stories
Stories
of Summers Past
Adios
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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