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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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Mother Brown Bear by Chris Fitka

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Vrooom! Vroom!

As the boat comes around the slough you, mother bear, and your cubs

glance at it with curiosity and shock

wondering what it is.

The next thing you know it is humans.

They are hunting you-the creatures that should be feared the most, the

evil ones.

 

You climb the bank and wait impatiently for your cubs to climb up so you

can flee out into the woods without being harmed.

 

"Brown Bears!, kill them, kill them!," someone shouts. You stand up tall and

try and scare the people away, but they won't get scared.

Not with a gun. You try to encourage your cubs to climb faster on the thin

layers of dry mud.

 

Finally your cubs climb up and you all escape into the wilderness

without coming back again.

You're safe, for now.

By: Chris Fitka

Mother Brown Bear

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