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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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The Trickster

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The Trickster

This is a play based on

the story about the Raven

and the Mussle as told by

Mary Uttereyuk to Mike Uttereyuk

Characters: Herbie--Raven

Mike--Mussel

Narrator: One hot summer day there once was a Raven who went for a stroll along the shoreline. When he reached a place near the water's edge he was just about to kick a mussel shell and the mussel caught his legs and dug down into the sand.

Herbie: (begging) Mussel! Mussel! let me be. If you do will pay you back with my cousin's other kayak.

Mike: (answering back) I don't use those things.

Herbie: (yelling) Mussel! Mussel! let me be. mussel! mussel! Let me be. I will pay you back with my other wife if you let me go.

Mike: (shocked) Really?!

Herbie: Yes I will give you my other wife it you let me go.

Narrator: Later on the Mussel started to let the Raven go just a little.

Mike: I don't believe you. I don't believe that you really will give me your wife.

Herbie:I promise to give you my other wife if you let me go.

Narrator: After that, finally the Raven got free. and quickly ran to the shore. So it is that the Raven escaped the mussel by tricking him. For the Raven was a trickster.

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