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Yup'ik Raven This collection of student work is from Frank Keim's classes. He wants to share these works for others to use as an example of culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These documents have been OCR-scanned and are available for educational use only.


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Bear by Garrett Evan

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Once a long time ago there was a big bear that destroyed villages up and down the Yukon. The bear was so smart that it knew when there was trouble. Whenever people went after it they would come back wounded or dead. When the wounded ones would come back they would tell the others that the bear stood 15 feet tall. The bear was so fearsome that there was a $1,000 dollar reward on its head.

One day a guy named David decided to go after the bear. So he went up the river. During the journey he joined up with his friend Larry whose nickname was One Eye because he lost an eye in a fight. Another day he and Larry helped an Indian who was in a fight. They let the Indian stay in their camp for the night. His name was Standing Bull. He was after the bear too because it had killed one of his kids. Early the next day Standing Bull left. When David and One Eye got up Standing Bull was already gone and they saw only his tracks.

So they set off again, and after traveling all day they found a good place to camp for the night and they stopped. When they were just about ready to go to sleep they heard something. David went to check and it was a bear trying to sneak up on them. David and One Eye shot him but he got away. That's when Standing Bull showed up. And he helped them trail the bear to a cave. The cave was on a tall narrow hill. The cave led to the other side of the hill which was covered with rocks.

They camped there behind a wall of rocks but while they were getting ready to sleep they had another close encounter with the bear. It broke the rock wall then ran away. They trailed it for two days after it broke the wall. The third day they tracked it to a valley where the bear attacked them. David shot it with a pistol because his rifle jammed. The bear fell but got back up and escaped into the trees. Then it charged out of the trees and knocked David on his side. Standing Bull then shot it with a bow and arrow and jumped on it and stabbed and killed it. As he did this, One Eye laughed. Then they skinned the bear and Standing Bull took the fur and David and One Eye took the head.

THE END

By: Garrett Evan

Bear

In 1902, the 26th President of the United States refused to shoot a black bear while out hunting. So popular was Theodore Roosevelt that toy bears were created to celebrate the event. And so was born the Teddy (Roosevelt) Bear. Strange to say, almost all teddy bears are brown instead of black.

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