 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 Summer at
Ohog
This summer I went to Ohog for a couple of
days. It was boring because it mostly rained and we had to stay in
our tent. And since our tent leaked at all the corners everybody was
clustered in the middle.
The first day we had trouble finding dry
ground. When we reached Ohog we had to walk on some poles that were
sinking in the mud and our shoes got really muddy and really heavy
from the weight of the mud. The skies were gray and cloudy which made
it a very boring day, but we found things to do to break the boredom
like racing, playing 10 (which is a game where some kids are in a
little circle and some kids outside the circle try to pull the other
kids outside of the circle), playing cards and just walking around
the camp. While everybody was playing games some guys and I climbed a
really steep hill, and when we reached the top we watched everybody
at camp. They looked like little bugs scurrying around from place to
place. After the climb I mostly stayed in our tent and sat around and
did nothing except wait for the day to end.
The next day we had to wake up at 8:00 a.m. and
go to church. We ate breakfast about two and a half hours later after
church. While most of the people were eating pancakes a couple of
guys and I ate cereal which tasted better than the small paper thin
pancakes others ate. After eating breakfast we returned to our tent
for pretty much the rest of the day. A lot of other people piled into
our tent until there was no more room left. To make matters worse we
had to keep our tent flaps open, and since it was really cold inside,
I had to stay rolled up in my blanket most of the time. Little kids
also kept running in and out of our tent making the place dirty
because of all the mud. When we ate we had to get into our assigned
groups and wait in a really long line in the rain. Then after eating
we would return to our tent. Every time we ate we would have to clean
up the tent because some people had left their trash in there and we
would get in trouble for the mess if they found it dirty.
On the last day it stopped raining and we had
hot dogs, pop and some other things to eat. Then they told us that we
were going home so we packed up and piled our things in one spot
while some other guys folded the tent that was used as our floor. But
we had to leave our tent up because we had to dry it out. When
everything was ready we grabbed our gear and headed for the boats.
After we climbed in we waited until everybody was ready to leave. I
jumped in the boat that Tom Andrew was driving and we were the first
ones to depart from Ohog. Since Tom wanted to wait until everybody
was ready before we started moving back down river, we circled a
couple times then started down. We weren't going very fast
when John
Andrew and Moe Duny passed us and left us behind. Then they stopped
in the distance and we passed them and waved. But they just smiled at
us. When we were really far ahead of their boat Tom
decided we'd go back and check on them because
their engine hadn't started and they were drifting. While we were
approaching them the third Marshall boat passed by, and I yelled out
really loud,"We're going back!" When we reached John and Moe we asked
them what the problem was. They didn't know, so we drifted with them
for about an hour and a half until Tom decided we were going to have
to tow them back home. It was slow going and we reached Marshall two
hours after the other boat. "The best laid plans... !"
By: Robert Pitka
Student
Tales
Tales
from Parents and Community
Tales
from Our Elders
Tales from
Our School Staff
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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