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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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Greg Mr. Fix-it

Greg's relationship to my son Russell was always very close, so they did a lot together as they were growing up. And I know they learned a lot of things together. Greg and his cousins were always up to something and I hope they were all good. At his young age he was taught well about how to assemble and disassemble things like household appliances and small engines by his older cousin Russell. One such time was when they took apart a working stereo which never had a problem to begin with. Yes, they succeeded in pulling it apart into many pieces but they did not know how to put it back together again. When they did manage to put it back together again there were with many pieces left over, but it still worked. From those first experiments came fixing things like simple tools and eventually putting a snow machine back together from three different models. And yes, it does work.

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