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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.

 

 

 

 

!TORNADO!

!TORNADO!

 

In the summer of 1968 Richard Olsen was visited by a tornado. At that time Richard was in the National Guard Summer Camp in Rapid City, South Dakota. One weekend he and his friend were off duty and they went to one of the drive-ins to get something to eat. The waitress came over, and just as they were ordering their food a big gust of wind came. The wind got faster by the second and Richard's friend told him it was a tornado and to get down on the seat of the car. Richard noticed the waitress was having a hard time running to the restaurant and that while she was trying to open the door her face was getting cut up from all the flying rocks. As the wind got stronger their car started staggering.

"I can't say that I wasn't scared," Richard said. "That was the first time I'd ever been in a tornado. It was weird because one moment it was nice and sunny outside and the next it was dark from all the dust and things flying all over the sky around us. My friend and I looked over to the east where a motel was located and we saw its roof come right off, twirl into the air and then collide with another motel."

After the tornado passed, Richard and his friend went to the motel and restaurant to see if everybody was okay. There were no major injuries but there were some people who were bleeding from all the rocks that were flying around. Richard also came across a car that was wrecked from the tornado. It had a piece of 2x6 wood inside it that had broken through its front window, and it seemed like all the broken glass from the windows had been pushed inside the car from the pressure.

There was one funny thing about the incident that I recall," Richard said. "A guy with just his pants on came out of the motel and asked us what the heck had happened to his car! He appeared to have been sleeping through the whole thing!"

By: Richard Olsen

Interviewed by: Chris Fitka

Fair Weather Hunting

- Nick Fitka Sr./Carmen Pitka

Blown off the Airstrip

- Palassa Fitka/Chris Fitka

A Fun Slide/A Big Wheelie

- Frances Evan/Garrett Evan

Stuck in a Snow Storm

- Leo Fitka/Chris Fitka

A Week In Togiak Bay

- Florence Peter/Tanya Peter

A Bad Blizzard

- Natalia George/Theresa George

Excitement on the Yukon

- Ellen Alstrom/Fred Alstrom

Walking Back to Marshall

- Joseph Peter/Tanya Peter

Lost In The Ocean

- Juliana B. Fitka/Gerilyn Fitka

Lost On The Flats

- Liza Busch/Ben Peteroff

Circling Marshall

- Nus Turet/Olga Moxie

Lost in a Blizzard

- Frank Coffee/Carmen Pitka

When Angeline Said Her Prayers

- Angeline Coffee/Fred Alstrom

Deep Snow

- David Evan/Ben Peteroff

Dave's Snowy Trapping Trip

- David Fitka/Fred Alstrom

The Whiteout

- Lena Sergie/Gerilyn Fitka

A Rough Ride to Boreal

- Roberta Fitka/Tanya Peter

Big Waves

- Jacob Isaac/Olga Moxie

We Forgot!

- Annie Hunter/Theresa George

Frostbite!

- Nick Isaac/Carmen Pitka

The White Out

- Terri Manumik/Gerilyn Fitka

!TORNADO!

- Richard Olsen/Chris Fitka

Two Days in the Fog

- Andy Boots/Tanya Peter

Paul Survived to Tell the Story

- Paul Boots/Theresa George

White Out!

- Frank Keim

 

Authentic Student Stories

 

Stories by Parents
and Community

 

Stories by Elders

 

Stories by the Elementary

 

Creative Student Stories

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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