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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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Paul Burned all the Men on the Yukon/Five Foot Pike!

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Paul Burned all the Men on the Yukon

"This past summer I commercial fished during the king season with Leo Fitka Sr. and Larry Evan. We fished at my camp which is located 15-20 miles up the river.

At the beginning of the season we got all our gear together and headed for my fishcamp. When we got there it was time to fish, so we started our first set. We didn't realize then that it would be such a good fishing season.

As we continued to fish the run started to pick up. And when we pulled in our net we caught a huge King salmon. It was so big and heavy it took all three men to pull in the net. We were freaking out because it was the biggest King salmon we'd ever caught. We were also happy because it weighed over 60 pound and measured over one foot in width.

According to the Marshall Fish Processor, we caught the most fish here in

Marshall this past summer. I won a free cable dish for that but didn't take it. Instead I took a tote and a brand new King net."

Paul Boots

Five Foot Pike!

"One time my wife and I went up to Shageluk to camp for a couple of days. We were a little ways below Shageluk when we decided to set a net so we could have some fish to eat later in the day. Three hours later we went to check the net to see what we caught. When we were done pulling in the net we had eight big pike and some of them were five feet long. We ate very good that night because of the big fish we caught in our net."

Nick Andrew
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