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.
Dealing with the
Hatred
Sky grew up in a small Indian village
somewhere in Oklahoma. When she was a young girl she always dreamed
of going to the city and having a better life. Finally, during her
senior year in high school she found out she was accepted by a small
junior college in a town not too far away. Sky was the happiest
person in the world that day. But she had no idea what it was going
to be like when she got there.
"Aah!" she screamed. "I got accepted!
I'm getting out of this crumby little place! I can't wait to
go."
"That's nice dear, but don't be too
happy to go. You might want to come right back home," Sky's mother
said with a worried look on her face.
"Oh mom, you just don't want me to
go. There's no way that I'm ever going to want to come back
here!"
"Sky, you never know what can happen
out there. It's a dangerous world today. You could get murdered,
raped, stalked, harrassed, or anything else bad."
"Mom it's just a small town. I'll be
alright there. Nothing bad can possibly happen. I'll make sure of
that," Sky said, trying to reassure her mom and not to make her so
worried. Then she gave her mom a kiss and ran out the door to tell
everybody the good news.
When fall rolled around the corner
and it was time for Sky to leave for college, she was very excited.
She left her little village behind on the bus and headed for the
town. Her heart pounded wildly and there was a permanent smile
painted on her face throughout the whole ride. Even though the bus
ride was three hours long, she felt like she couldn't keep still.
Finally, after what seemed like days to Sky, the bus finally pulled
to a stop outside the junior college. She grabbed her bags and stood
outside for a minute and looked around. Then she walked into the
nearest building. There were about ten people inside and they all
stared at Sky as she walked in and headed for the little booth
labeled "information." She felt her stomach muscles tighten and a
small sweat break out on her forehead. This uneasy feeling made her
want to turn around and run out.
"It's one of those Indians," she
heard someone whisper. Sky forced a smile but it made her feel even
more uncomfortable. As Sky was looking around the room she stumbled
on her bags. People started snickering, then someone made an Indian
war whoop and everyone started laughing.
That night Sky cried herself to sleep
in her room, wondering if her mother was right after all and wishing
that she hadn't come here. "But maybe tomorrow things will be better.
Today is just the first day, she whispered to herself and drifted off
to sleep.
The next day everybody was
registering for classes. And still people made fun of Sky and said
rude things as she passed by. Despite all the mean people, Sky
managed to keep her confidence up and to make a couple of new
friends. She found out that the people who made fun of her didn't
like her because she was an Indian.
During the first day of classes Sky
sat down in her speech class, and her teacher told the students that
their first assignment would be to write a speech on what they
thought of the place and how they felt to be there. "This is my
chance," Sky thought to herself. "I'm going to tell all these people
what it is really like being an
Indian. Maybe some of them will change the way they feel about me
once I express my true feelings."
Sky wrote a speech about racism and
the way some people had treated her when she first came to the
campus. She wrote about the way she felt when that happened. After
she made her speech to the class her teacher asked her if she would
mind presenting it in front of the whole campus. Sky accepted the
offer and made the speech. After that many of the people changed
their attitudes toward her, although others were too proud to change.
Sky was even on statewide television and in the newspapers, and her
speech was published in some magazines.
Miles away from the little college,
Sky's mother sat smiling as she read about her daughter in the paper. "I will no longer have to worry about my little baby. She has grown
up well," she thought, as she admired her daughter's picture. "If you
can deal with hate, you can deal with anything.
By Charlotte Alstrom
Boycott
Texaco!
My name is
Kerry and I have
AIDS
(Now I'm dead!)
Going,
Going Gone!
Man and the
Environment
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 |
Marshall
Cultural Atlas