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.

 

 

 

The Frightened Attack

This story was told to my great grandmother, my grandmother and my mother, and was passed down to me.

A long time ago there was a young woman named Maruss who lived in the village of Takchak. This little Yupilc vrnage was located 150 miles upstream from the mouth of the Yukon River.

Maruss once had a daughter named Alexandra. Alexandra was her first baby, but she died of a terrible accident while picking berries on the tundra.

It all began one evening when she went out to pick some wild rhubarbs for her family's evening snack and she saw this young boy in the tall grasses doing something. She was wondering what he was doing and she went to look for him. But he hid in the tall grasses until she found him. After she found him she had to go back to the village. She laughed as she was walking away. The boy knew she liked him.

When she got to the village, her mother asked why she didn't pick enough rhubarbs. She told her mother that she ended up playing with someone from the village. Her mother was the wife of the chief in the village. So, the boys that liked her in the village couldn't ask her out. Her parents would have to pick her husband. She didn't like that way of living. But it was the custom that she had to get married.

Her parents were talking about who the boy in the village might be who would marry her. When her mother walked away from the conversation, Maruss asked her who her husband would be. She told Maruss she didn't know because it was mostly up to her father. Then Maruss told her mother who she liked in the village. But Maruss said she didn't know who this young boy was, or who his parents were. Soon after she went out to look for them. But she couldn't find who the parents were of the young boy her daughter admired.

She waited for a week and finally her father told her when the day was she was going to get married. When that day came she got ready. Everybody was waiting in the mudhouse when she entered with her mother and father. Then she saw the boy. It was the same boy she had met picking

berries. She smiled at him and he smiled back. Maruss was happy she was going to marry him. They had a baby girl a year later. That baby was named Alexandra. But one day when Maruss went out berry picking she saw this big brown animal in the willows looking at her. It was a bear. She did what her parents had told her to do, but that bear suddenly ran out and charged her. Then tore her apart. The next day when her mother went out to look for her she found her where she had been picking berries. Then her husband ran out to look for this animal and shot it. He skinned the bear and brought back the fur. They buried her parts in that skin, and the young girl Alexandra was told this story about her mother when she was old enough to know. She passed it on to her daughter who still lives today.

Marlene Papp

Bear Fire

True Stories from Experience

My Boat Ride	- Sally Duny / Gabe Duny
The Excitement of the Bear	- Theresa Shorty / Palassa Sergie
My Grandmother's Story	- Irene Evan / Flora M. Evan
The Frightened Attack	- Marlene Papp
An Unexpected Bear Hunt	- Carol Manumik / Henry S. Manumik
Big Bear	- Leslie Hunter / Leslie Hunter Jr.
Bear Experience	- James Edison / Tina Papp
The Lucky Black Bear	- Carol Manumik / La Verne Manumik
A Bear that Visited	- Martha Evan / Barbara Andrew

 

 

Bear Fire Stories and Poems about Bears

by Marshall High School
Language Arts Classes
Spring, 1992

 

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Information about Bears

Creative Stories from the Imagination

True Stories from Experience

Poems

 

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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