 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.
New Year's In
Seattle
"On New Year's Eve my boss, Leana,
had a party at her house. Leana and her partner have a very nice
house with a backyard and everything. At the party there were three
men in suits playing Blackjack while this kid about the same age as
my son was dealing. My son, Jake, wanted to play and he ended up
winning $3.50.
This party had the classiest of
everything. They had all kinds of finger foods arranged nice and
neat, and turkey, and they even had some caviar. Also, they had all
the best liquor and wines and champagne you could ever find.
Everything was the finest.
Not too long before midnight Leana
and her partner had everyone get into a circle and say this chant
that had to do with forgetting about the past and looking into the
future. Then they started to sing Row Your Boat. They had a fire out
in the backyard where we were having the party, and Leana pulled out
this sage grass. She lit it and started putting smoke on everyone as
a blessing. As it got closer to midnight, more and more fireworks
started going off in the distance. People started to sing more
quietly. The wind started picking up.
By midnight it was really windy and
the trees were swaying back and forth. The fireworks started going
crazy at midnight. The people in the circle were still singing Row
Your Boat and Jake told me that this whole thing was dumb. The whole
ritual seemed Pagan or Wiccan or Druid, and it was kind of eerie. I
was sitting on the back porch watching them while I sipped a Glen
Libets single malt scotch. Then Leana told everyone to look to the
east, look to the south, and so on. When they looked to the north,
everyone was looking at me because I was north of them and that was
sort of embarrassing. When they quit singing and sat around the fire
and talked. Then Jake wanted to play Blackjack again, but nobody else
wanted to."
Phil Turet
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 |
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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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