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Yup'ik RavenMarshall 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.

 

 

 

 

Troublesome Kids

 

My summer started off okay. After school got out we would have Eskimo dance practice almost everyday after bingo until Jack left for Mt. Village to find a job for the summer. After that my summer days got boring because I had nothing to do. I would just hang out with friends and play basketball or walk around. Some days my sister Palassa would ask me if I wanted to babysit her kids while she worked at the Post Office. That would only be on Saturdays, although one time she asked me to babysit her kids while she went out berry picking. She took off around 2:00 in the afternoon and came back at midnight. When she came back I told her that I was never going to babysit her kids that long again. She told me that they took that long because they got soaked in the rain and stopped at Leslie's cabin to dry up before they came home. Another reason was that they had a very slow boat and it took them two hours to get to the picking place.

Another time I babysat for my brother Vassily and Lena when they went over the Bethel to shop. They told me that they would come back the next day, so I said that I would babysit for them. When they took off I rode the kids around most of the day and brought them to the playground. Towards the evening I was wishing that my brother and Lena would come home because I was having a lot of trouble getting the kids to bed. The next day I brought the kids out for a while, really expecting my brother and Lena to come home. I kept checking the airport whenever planes came in but there was no sign of my brother. So I was stuck with the troublesome kids for one more day. Finally the next day they came in the afternoon and their kids were very happy to see them.

Another thing I did during my summer vacation was go out on boat rides almost every day after Jack came back from Mt. Village. We would mostly take rides to Wilson or to the sandbar. We would go to Wilson to bait fish or just for the ride. One time Jack, Walter, Nus, and I went up to Wilson to fish. Jack brought an extra fishing rod for me to try. He said that people who first time fish usually catch some fish. When we got to Wilson, we put some fish eggs on our "J" hooks and cast them out. While waiting for some nibbles on the eggs we talked about any old thing. Walter was the first one to catch a fish, then Jack. After a while I finally caught one. I was kind of scared because it was my first time bait fishing, so I told Jack to reel it in for me. While we were there Walter caught three white fish, Jack caught two, and I caught two. We were up there for about an hour and a half and came home because it was getting boring.

One of the best things I did during my summer vacation was Eskimo dance practice. We had a lot of fun learning a couple of new songs, one from Russian Mission and one from Chevak. They are both very good songs to dance and sing. I hope to perform them sometime very soon.

 

 

Tatiana Sergie
Troublesome Kids

Troublesome Kids

- Tatiana Sergie

Spring Camping

- Jonathan Boots

Do You Have Any Talking Balls?

- Charlotte Alstrom

A Different Village

- Jackie Paul George

Fishing on the Kuskokwim

- Joel Isaac

Scott's First Muskrat

- Joe Fitka

Camping With Crystal

- Cheryl Hunter

Camping with My Family

- Rose Lynn Fitka

Bethel to Pilot

- Kathy Duny

Lazy in Bethel

- Willie Paul Fitka

Back and Forth

- Lois Moore

 

 

Tales from Students

Tales from Parents and Community

Tales from our Elders

Tales from our School Staff

Moose

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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