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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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Tony Tinker

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Our land is full
of green grass tundra
that makes a happy light of green color.

Our land has lots of living animals
of all shapes and sounds,
big and small,
beautiful and ugly.

Our land has lots of different foods to eat:
mushrooms,
mousefood,
and greens.

Our land has berries,
big and small,
sour and sweet.

And flowers grow
in all shapes and colors.

Our land is full of life
in the summer.

But in winter
it's lifeless.

Our tundra was made for wild things.

Wangkuta nunaput imanqertuq canegneng cailkami
cungaglineng.

Wangkuta nunaput amllerneng unguvalriartangqertuq
ayuqenrilngurneng cali nepneng,
angelrianeng cali mikelrianeng.
Tangnirqelrianeng cali tangnialnguneng.

Wangkuta nunaput amllerneng ayuqenrilngurneng
neqkartangqertuq
palurutayagarneng.
Pakiissaaneng
naunreneng-llu.

Wangkuta nunaput atsalirtuq
angelrianeng cali mikelrianeng
qunarqelrianeng cali neqnirqelrianeng
naucitaat-llu nulutuut
angtatatekevkenateng cali minguit ayuqerkenateng.

Wangkuta nunaput unguvatuuq kiagmi.

Taugaam uksumi cailngurtun ayuquq.

Wangkuta nunaput piliarullruuq ungunssinun.

Tony Tinker

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