 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
Summer
Clara went to Bethel with her mom
Agnes Owletuck so she could get a check up at the Yukon Kuskokwim
Regional Hospital. She says that her mom was throwing up and getting
dehydrated. She also had an infection on her hip from the surgery she
had in February. While they were there they found out Clara's mom had
cancer in her liver. That was what was causing the vomiting. She had
IV treatments to give her fluid and the doctors reopened her surgery
site to extract the puss from the infection. Then her doctor decided
to send her to Anchorage to see what was the best way to handle her
many health problems.
They were in Anchorage for another
week, and while they were there the doctors found that Agnes had gall
stones and liver cancer, and the infection in her hip was more
extensive than the doctors thought in Bethel. The only way to deal
with the gall stones was to have surgery, but because of Agnes' weak
heart and cancer the doctors decided not to operate. They told her
mom and Clara that they couldn't help her with her problems. The only
way they could help her was to make her comfortable by giving her
pain medication. They showed Clara how to give her mom the
medication, how to clean her wound on her hip and also how to change
her bed sheets while she was still on the bed because she was bed
ridden.
After she learned all this stuff they
came home. Clara took care of her for one week and two days and then
she passed away on July 5 at 10:53 p.m. She went peacefully. It was
really hard for Clara to watch her mom slowly die. It's still hard to
think about it or even talk about it. Nothing hurts as hard as
watching someone you love die slowly, suffering pain, and then also
knowing you wouldn't ever be able to laugh, cry, joke around with,
confide in or ask advice from her anymore. Sometimes Clara feels like
her life has broken into little pieces so small that it can never be
put together again. Sometimes, though, she feels relieved that her
mom s pain is no more, and that eases her mind a little. There is
also some happiness knowing Agnes is in heaven with her eldest son
Arthur, her third son Michael, her sister Anna, and all the others
who have passed on. There's also the hope that one day they'll all be
together again where there's no more pain, no more tears, no more
hate, no wars, and only LOVE.
After the funeral she started to cut
fish, pick blue berries, and simply be with her family to support and
try to comfort each other.
By:
Clara Shorty
Interviewed by: Tatiana
Sergie
Tales from
Students
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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