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Yup'ik RavenMarshall 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.

 

 

 

 

A Time When Food was Scarce

Since we didn't catch any eels this past fall, dog mushers here in Marshall had to look for other sources of dog food. As soon as the ice was thick enough to travel on, my brothers and I found a good spot and set out our lush fish trap. It took four and a half hours to set and has averaged about five fish per night .We also have nets to catch white fish and pike, and the nets and fish traps have sustained us through much of the winter. But just as food was getting scarce, the blackfish arrived.

From time to time blackfish show up at different places.Their numbers are so great that they will melt a hole in the ice, and that is generally how they are found. This usually happens when the temperature is between 10-40 degrees below zero, making it dangerous to go and gather these little fish.

Jaylene and I went early one morning before daybreak to a spot about 10 miles north of here. Someone had been there the day before us, and there was a total of about 16 gunny sack bags in several piles around the area. We found an active hole with fish in it and started to scoop them out using a small dip net. After scooping them out we emptied the net into a gunny sack. The temperature was -20 degrees, so we had to clear the ice from the hole frequently. The process of filling the net and then the bags was slow, but we soon had eight bags filled up, giving us mushers relief during a time when food was scarce.

David Fitka

A Time When Food was Scarce

Opening Presents

- Palassa Owletuck

New Year's In Seattle

- Phil Turet

New Card Games

- Olga Soolook

A "Happy" New Year!

- Ruth Ann Fitka

A Time When Food was Scarce

- David Fitka

In The Maqii House

- Katemal Shorty

A Hectic Christmas

- Palassa Fitka

Not This Year

- Julia Papp

A St. Patrick's Christmas

- Donna Best

Work On My Family Tree

- Richard Olsen

Working in the School

- Nick Duny

A Moose Hunting Christmas

- Emil Kuinya

In my Daughter's Helicopter

- Ray Butts

The Akutak Race

- Clara Shorty

Slavic in Mountain Village

- Annie Fitka

A Time of Great Relaxation

- Flora M. Evan

My Grandsons' Santa Claus

- Guy Sandlin

Traveling with Lena

- Gerilyn Fitka

Christmas Blackfish

- Theresa Kameroff

A Blast From the Past

- Andy Boots

My Millennium Holiday

- Max Lunt

To See My Mother in Mountain Village

- Annie Hunter

New Year's in a Volcano

- Barb Sandlin

Twenty-five Fish!

- Terri Manumik

Home With Family

- Frank Keim

 

Student Stories

 

Stories from Parents,
School
and Community

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  
M&M Monthly    
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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