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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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Katemal Shorty's Summer

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Katemal Shorty's Summer

The first thing Katemal did after school got out was go to a workshop down in Mountain Village. They had sessions on furnaces, boilers, generators and janitorial stuff like keeping the school clean. Then he and the other men worked up here in the school. They cleaned the school and put in new walls in the boys' and girls' bathrooms. They also waxed the gym floor and shampooed the rugs in the classrooms.

Kat also went commercial fishing during the summer. He sold his fish to the local company, M.F.P. But he said the price was low (only 80 cents a pound), and he went in the hole.

Kat and his family later went down to St. Mary's for John and Marcia Tomson's 50th anniversary. There they attended a potlatch and did some Eskimo dancing and fiddling, and they had a lot of fun.

By: Katemal Shorty

Interviewed by: Garrett Evan

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