 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.
Escaping From Marshall's
Boredom
On Monday, July 31, I received a
phone call from Grant at KAKO mine asking if I wanted to go over
there to attend a student religious retreat. I said, yeah, and the
next day Grant picked me up with his airplane at the airport. On the
way over Grant asked me if I had ever been to Willow Mine and I said,
no. When we passed over KAKO I noticed they were building another
house, and that they had dug ponds for the mining machines. As we
were landing I also noticed that the runway was crooked.
When I signed in at the dining room
Grant's wife put a piece of paper on my back and I had to guess what
it was until I got it. Then we had to divide into two groups and
separated on two sides of the room. Grant and Kim then spread a
blanket between the two groups. Then each group put one or two people
on each side of the blanket and the other people had to guess who
they were. When it was my turn I had a hard time guessing their names
because I hardly knew anybody. We played this and other games so we
could get to know each other. At the end of these games, I grabbed a
Pepsi and went back to the dining room where I got ready for supper.
After that Grant's wife took out her guitar and started to sing some
bible songs. Then we had free time, so I went to the ping pong room
to watch some people play ping pong. Then I played cards with some
people and ate popcorn. We played until 11:50 P.M. when we had to put
the games away and prepared for bed. Some of the boys told bed time
stories. Then we went to sleep around 1:30 A. M.
The next morning after we cleaned up
the mess, we sat down and had pancakes. Later Grant sent us on a
scavenger hunt where we had to find things on a list. This was to be
our lunch ticket so we could eat lunch. We found everything except
something that crawls and went in for lunch which was spaghetti and
meatballs. After lunch Grant took us on a hike to the top of a nearby
mountain. Two other boys from Russian Mission and I reached the top
before everybody else. There we picked blueberries and had a little
berry fight. We were the first ones to get back down the mountain.
When we returned Grant said we had to make hats out of anything we
could find outdoors. I made my hat out of willow branches. When the
girls were done with their hats they put them on the table where some
bugs climbed off them.
Later that night we decided we would
scare the girls in their bunk houses. But we had to wait until 12:30
A. M. to scare the girls. When the other boys came over from their
bunkhouses we sneaked over to where the girls were sleeping. We had
to run all the way around and walk in the wet grass and wet bushes.
As we approached the girls' bunkhouse we saw them coming out the
door. So a few of us hid nearby and watched them slowly move closer
while the other boys hid further away. But somehow the girls heard us
and took off in the direction where the rest of the boys were
waiting. As they were running the boys jumped out and scared the
girl's. Then we all walked over to where Barney and Grant had made a
camp fire. We found out that Grant had set the whole thing up so both
the girls and boys would try to scare each other! He sure fooled
us!
The next morning after breakfast and
a couple movies about Jesus, Grant sent us on another treasure hunt
where we had to follow a map around the houses and walk all the way
down the runway where we had to wait for everybody to reach a bucket
with a message in it that said to return to the dining room for a
treat. We all ran back and when we reached the dining room Grant was
waiting for us. He then brought us to another house where he made us
ask him twenty questions before we could get our ticket's for a
Snickers candy bar. After lunch we had a contest for the best looking
and most creative hats we had made the day before. Then we sang more
songs and played football until people started to leave. First Bethel
left, then Russian Mission, Mountain Village, and finally
me.
So that was the best thing that
happened to me this summer, and it sure helped me escape from
Marshall's boredom.
By: Robert Pitka
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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