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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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Carayak by Billy Waska

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A long time ago when I was five years old there was a bear in our camp. The bear used to break into our smoke house and steal dry fish. So one day my uncle Tommy made a trap to catch the bear. He dug a hole in the ground, and after he dug the hole he put a snare attached to a wire in the hole. The next day when they checked the smoke house, they found the snare and wire were gone . So they immediatey got ready and followed the bear. It had walked about five miles from our camp where we found it lying down. It was a big Brown bear and when he saw us he started breathing very hard. Then Tommy shot the bear. And it didn't breathe any more.

Billy Waska

Carayak

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