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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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Jennifer's Summer in Kansas

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Jennifer's Summer in Kansas

Jennifer Keim's summer vacation was not that enjoyable. She said, "I didn't have a nice summer."

During her summer vacation she had a chance to visit her family in Kansas. While she was there her father passed away after an operation. Since she is the oldest child, she had to help out with her family and keep them company in their sadness. After the funeral, all the family members were there so Jennifer visited with all the elders in her family. She also cleaned up on her family's farm, working with the cattle, giving them shots because they had sore feet. Other things she did were picking blackberries to make jam and picking plums to make jam and plum juice. Jen also made pickled crabapples which are used in Kansas when you eat meat. And she and her mom made a wedding gift for Tern and Bill Manumik.

After spending two months with her family in Kansas she returned to Fairbanks to get ready to teach here in Marshall again. While she was In Fairbanks she went shopping with Monica Chi-Benedetti. She shopped for food to be shipped to Marshall and also got some fabrics for quilting.

The last thing she did for the summer was close up their home with Frank for the winter.

Told by: Jennifer Keim

Inerviewed by: Olga Moxie


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