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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.

 

 

 

 

No Niggers In Our Town!

 

One day while the V.P.S.O. was on a flight from Bethel to Pilot Village he started experiencing mechanical difficulties. He radioed back to Bethel but they couldn't understand what he was saying so he called over to Pilot Village to say that his plane was going down.

We called over to Bethel by phone and told them a plane had gone down. One elder who was listening on the VHF told the search and rescue team that the plane went down around Toklik camp, not far from Ohagamiut. When they got there they found the plane was on fire and the V.P.S.O. was lieing on the snow dead. His head was cracked open and his body was covered with blood. They called over to Toklik to call Pilot Village about the accident.

A couple of weeks after the accident at a meeting the mayor announced that we were going to get a new V.P.S.O. Everyone on the council wanted to know who he was and what he looked like. The mayor told us that we'd see when he arrived on the first flight in the morning.

When the V.P.S.O. arrived everyone went to check on how he looked. When I first saw him I thought he was wearing a face mask because I couldn't see his face. But when I got closer I noticed that he wasn't wearing a face mask at all. His skin was a different color!

Later on in the evening two kids and a woman came in on the evening flight, and they were black too. People gossiped about it and didn't want to socialize with them because they were so different from us.

Early in the morning the next day when the new kids went to school nobody wanted to sit by them because they were a different color and acted differently. When the new boy, Charlie, moved over to the boys' table, one by one the local boys moved away from him. He started to cry, and left the classroom and went to the principal's office. The principal then came into the room and asked us what was going on. Then during lunch break everyone called him a baby because of what he did.

Right after school, Skip, one of the local bullies, went up to Charlie and punched him. Charlie went home crying. His dad, Willy, then went over to Skip's parents and asked them what was going on. Skip told him he didn't like Charlie because he was a different color than him! Willy got pissed off and went out the door. Right after that Charlie's big brother, Alex, beat up Skip really bad.

The Traditional Council then called the State Troopers the next day, and they said they would come out ASAP and pick up the whole family. When they were leaving the airport everyone had signs that said, "NO NIGGERS IN OUR TOWN!" Willy and his family were all crying when they left because of what the town did. They never went back there again.

By Jonathan Boots

Remember! No Niggers In Our Town! Remember!

 

 

Racism!

- John Tikiun

Racial Troubles

- Robert Pitka

Race!

- Garrett Evan

Our New V.P.S.O.

- Mary Jane Shorty

Something New

- Cheryl Hunter

Prom Night

- Jack George

Supreme Court

- Tanya Peter

The Bad Times

- Fred Alstrom

A Night Gone Bad!

- Matthew Shorty

Dealing with the Hatred

- Charlotte Alstrom

No Niggers In Our Town!

- Jonathan Boots

 

 

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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