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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.

 

 

 

 

Dirty Oil!

 

While I was walking along a beach on the Gulf of Alaska, I was wondering where the smell of gas was coming from. When I got closer to the smell I looked into the water and I saw a lot of dirty used oil in the ocean. I was really mad that noone had done anything about it. I was even angrier when I saw a lot of dead fish, mammals and birds. I hurried to my house and called the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and told them about what I found down on the beach.

They were so shocked they were over here in no time. I told them that I would volunteer my time to help them, and I called my boss and told him that I wouldn't be going to work for a week or so. He was really mad and he asked me all sorts of questions about why I wouldn't be working. When I told him about the oil spill he said that it wasn't important and that if I didn't come back to work I would be fired. I got so mad I told him that there were other jobs and that cleaning up the oil spill was more important and hung up. Then I went to work cleaning up the oil spill.

I was really curious about how the oil spill happened so I started investigating. First, I went to the boat harbor and checked all the boats. There I discovered two people in a boat trying to clean dirty oil from their hands. When I looked into the boat I found four empty 55 gallon tanks that smelled like the dirty oil on the beach. Then I reported my find to the police. It turned out the boat belonged to my old boss, and he was sent to jail for a year for dumping oil in the ocean.

I thought that we would be finished cleaning up the oil in a week but we kept finding more oil. I was very curious again so I went down to the beach very quietly at night and I saw two more people who worked for my old boss dumping more oil in the ocean. The next night I brought the clean-up boss with me down to the beach to identify who they were. He got really mad and told the police about it. Then the police arrested everyone who was connected with the dumping and they shut down my old bosse's business. After that, within a month most of the oil and dead animals were cleaned up and the beach started coming back to life again.

By: Tanya Peter
World
Conservation
The circle symbolizes the biosphere

The circle symbolizes the biosphere-the thin covering of the planet that contains and sustains life. The three interlocking, overlapping arrows symbolize the three objectives of conservation:

- maintenance of essential ecological processes and life-support systems;
-preservationof genetic diversity
-sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems.

 

Mystery Murder

- Matthew Shorty

Close Call!

- Cheryl Hunter

Disrespectful

- Jack George

The Dumper

- Jonathan Boots

Where Did They All Go?

- Charlotte Alstrom

On Oily Grounds

- Garrett Evan

Dirty Oil!

- Tanya Peter

Gas!

- John Tikiun

Recycling Trash

- Mary Jane Shorty

A Near Nuclear Catastrophe

- Fred Alstrom

What A Waste!

- Robert Pitka

 

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

 

 
 

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