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.Special | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | ALL
The Bear Attack by Fred Alstrom:One day my buddy Ben and I got my snow machine and headed for the Willow mine. We didn't take any gun even though we had heard of bears in the area. We didn't think we would see any. We had a small snow machine that went only about 45-50 m.p.h. When we got near the air strip and Wilson Creek we saw a lot of water on the Yukon River. So we decided to cross Wilson Creek where the slush and water weren't so deep. When we got to the tundra on the other side we saw about two feet of water on the river, so we had to go by the tundra. We went up 4-5 miles when we saw a fox and some rabbits. But so far we didn't see any bear. When we got up to the landing we stopped to rest for about five to ten minutes and we had some pop and candy. Then we started up the trail. We stopped a few times on the way to rest, but it took us only about 45 minutes to get up to the mine. When we got up there we saw Chris, Damien, Kaaina, David, Willie, Joel, Tina and our teacher, Frank. They were all surprised to see us and asked us how we came up. We said, "By snow machine, how else?" We stayed up there for one or two hours with them. It was about five o'clock when we left. Frank said to be carefull because there were bears running around. We headed down the trail to the landing and this time it only took us 25-30 minutes going down. When we got down there we took a break and joked around, saying we wouldn't see a bear. From the landing, it took us 20 minutes to get to the tundra because it had warmed up out there and there were more than two feet of water. Then when we were only about five miles from the Willow mine we saw a bear! Ben got kind of scared when he saw it. I thought he was lying when he first told me he saw that bear, and I got scared too and started to speed up. We were two to three miles from Wilson Creek when the bear came up to us very close. By then we knew it was following us. When we got to Wilson Creek it was still following us. But after we got across the creek the bear turned back. By the time we got back to town we were relieved to be safe and sound. And we learned our lesson always to travel in bear country with a rifle.
By Fred Alstrom  | |
|
