 Marshall
Cultural Atlas
This collection of student work is from
Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others
to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These
documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available
for educational use only.
Alexander Isaac's Christmas
Season
Alexander Isaac said that he enjoyed this past
holiday season. He attended the christmas programs put on by the
school and city, but he did not really celebrate the catholic
Christmas, which is on the 25th of December, because he is Russian
Orthodox and goes by a different calendar. For most of the Catholic
holiday season he and his wife kept to doing just ordinary
things.
"Slavik' is a Yupik word borrowed from the
Russian language. It means something like "glorious" and is given to
Orthodox Christmas. Slavik starts on the 7th of January and these
days goes until the star has gone through all the houses in town. But
Alexander says that things, including Slavik, are different these
days. Back when he was young there was a lot more discipline among
the kids, and they also had to do more work. Before Slavik started,
the boys had to chop lots of wood and pack water for the people of
the village to use. When the star was in a house the children were
not loud and mischief like they are today, and no one was allowed to
leave a house the star was in until it did. The Slavying itself
lasted three days and three nights, and everyone participated. Today
a lot of things are different, but some things remain the same, like
the spirit of the season.
This Slavik Alexander spent in Kwethluk where
he did some Slavying. He was also there to watch his son, Nick, be
ordained as a subdeacon by Bishop Innocent who had come all the way
from Kodiak to perform the ceremony.
By: Alexander Isaac
Interviewed by: Ben Peteroff
Student
Stories
Tales
by Parents
Tales
by the Elders
Staff
Stories
If
I were...
The
Christmas of my Dreams
Christmastime Tales
Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1996 |
Christmastime Tales II
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1998 |
Christmastime Tales III
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 2000 |
| Summer Time Tails 1992 |
Summertime Tails II 1993 |
Summertime Tails III |
| Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995 |
Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996 |
Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997 |
| Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999 |
Signs of the Times November 1996 |
Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations |
| Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out,
the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993 |
Yupik Gourmet - A Book of
Recipes |
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| M&M Monthly |
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| Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997 |
Happy Easter! March/April 1998 |
Merry Christmas December Edition 1997 |
| Happy Valentine’s
Day! February Edition
1998 |
Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000 |
Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997 |
| Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition |
Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon
Bay |
Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981 |
| The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska |
Poems of Hooper Bay |
Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students) |
| Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord |
It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997 |
People in Our Community |
| Buildings and Personalities of
Marshall |
Marshall Village PROFILE |
Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A
Glimpse of the Past’ |
| Raven’s
Stories Spring 1995 |
Bird Stories from Scammon Bay |
The Sea Around Us |
| Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the
Weather Spring 1996 |
Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November,
1998 |
Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993 |
| Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming
and the future November, 1997 |
Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves |
Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring,
1992 |
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