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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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Mary Jane's Encounter with a Raven - Original Student Folktales

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Mary Jane's Encounter with a Raven

"As I was walking around up and down the main street of Marshall, I spotted a raven. While it was still up in the air I started calling the raven. "Car-car,'' I called, and as I did, the raven came nearer and nearer to me. Then finally it landed, and I asked him if he would like to go for a walk with me. Then slowly we started walking together.

While we were walking along I saw a baby duck and I asked the raven to go after it and catch it. The raven tried, but he didn't catch the duck. He was upset for a while, so I cheered him up. Later during the walk I saw a mouse in the middle of the road. Raven spotted it too and he went chasing after it. Even though he was real hungry, again he didn't catch it. Then poor raven started crying. And again I comforted him. I told him that if he was that hungry I would find him some food. He agreed, and he followed me out to the tundra. There on the tundra he found the food he needed to stay alive. And it wasn't moving and running away from him either. For there in front of him were thousands of blueberries. He was so happy he cried, and again I comforted him. Then as he started to eat the berries, I waved goodbye to him and told him we would walk together again sometime."

Story by: Mary Jane Shorty
Interviewed by: Maureen Fitka

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