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.

 

 

 

 

Dancing in St. Mary's

 

On August 12,1 went down to St. Mary's with my cousins David Andrew, Nick Fitka Jr.(Long), and Ray Alstrom Jr. The first night we got there we only went to the store and hung out for awhile. Then I went home until the square dance started at the community hall. My friends and I hung out there and watched people be square. The dance quit at 1:00 A.M. After the dance quit, my friends and I walked and talked and laughed and couldn't wait until Friday night for the teen dance. Later on that morning we all went home to get some rest for the next night.

On Friday morning Long woke me up. He came in and bothered me while I was having a good dream. Then we all got washed up and went to the store to have breakfast. After that we walked up and down the hills around St. Mary's all day. Finally, evening came and the square dance began. We stayed there and hung out until the teen dance started. When we heard that the teen dance had begun we walked down to the Townsite Hall and hung out. People were just starting to show up there, so the beginning was sort of boring. While we were waiting for people to show up, I bumped into a bunch of people I had known at Mt. Edgecumbe and friends I had met at either volleyball or basketball games or at the Bilingual Conference. When almost everyone had arrived we went in and danced. It felt cool to dance because we hadn't had a dance in a couple of months here in Marshall.

After the dance quit at 3:00 A.M., everyone gathered around the dance hall and chatted. We finally left the dance hall at around 4:45 A.M. and walked up town. I went home around 5:30 A.M. While we were walking up we bumped into a huge dog. We took off running. One of us jumped on the back of a truck. My other friend took off down the road, and I ran any old direction and bumped into the dog again. When I took off running again the dog didn't follow me; it just walked away. Then I said good night and went in to sleep.

The next morning I got up and went to the store again where I hung out and talked and waited for my other friends to come around. Not very long afterward they swung by. I hung around with them, and we went back and forth to the stores. Then we waited until the square dance started and hung out there until the teen dance got more exciting. Then we went down and danced the night away, since it was the last night for both dances and we knew we probably wouldn't have another teen dance in a long time.

The next morning we got ready to go home. After we got all of our passengers together and bought the gas, we took off for home. We all enjoyed ourselves so much at the dance we wished we could have stayed another night there.

By: Kimberly Fitka

Not One Minute Wasted	- Rose Lynn Fitka
Dancing in St. Mary's	- Kimberly Fitka
Summer Fun In Marshall	- Maurice Turet
Summers Can Be Fun	- Jolene Soolook
Fourth of July Tournament	- Nastasia Sergie
A Summer With Christopher	- Mildred Tassie Fitka
Tracking a Black Bear	- Richard Boots
In Seattle With My Dad	- Jacob Turet
Thirty-five Dollars	- Emily Soolook
Up to my Uppa's Fish Camp	- Dennis Isaac
Gone Camping	- Andrea Shorty
One Hilarious Summer	- Jeanetta Boots
Miranda and I	- Paula Shorty
A Good Time at Pilot	- Nick Fitka Jr.
Fourth of July at Emmo	- Travis Teganlakla
Early Morning Mischief in a Canoe	- Diane Fitka
Staying up Late	- Mikey Fitka
Our Bear	- Matthew Heckman
Traveling on the River	- Liz Shorty
Poor Fishing with Boo Boo	- Ray Alstrom Jr.

 

 

 

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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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