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.

 

 

 

 

 

Grizzly Bear

 

The Grizzly Bear

The Grizzly bear is stout and rather chunky in shape, with a large hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders. It has very long claws. People describe it as being somewhat "dish-faced" in appearance. Grizzlies eat a lot of salmon, and when salmon are especially numerous, they might eat just their favorite portions of the fish. These bears often catch and eat up to twenty salmon in an hour. Because of this, a bear could gain up to 6 pounds of fat in a 24 hour period. Although their diet is mostly plant material, they eagerly seek out animal matter because its food value is much more concentrated.

Grizzly bears spend the winter hibernating in their dens. Depending on the size of the bear, a sleeping chamber can measure over 7 feet wide and 3 feet high. Some dens have been used for centuries by numerous generations of bears. Grizzlies begin to hibernate in the middle of September.

Grizzlies may live longer than thirty years and can reproduce for most of their lives. One female kept at the Leipzig Zoo was still having cubs when she was twenty-six years old. Females generally don't breed until they are at least five years old. The breeding occurs in June or July. The bears give birth about 222 to 229 days after copulation. The actual fetal growth takes only about sixty days. A newborn Grizzly bear may weigh less than one pound, but nursing cubs gain weight quickly because bear milk contains as much as 33 percent fat . The cubs may increase their weight as much as 1,000 times. The sow bear will fiercely defend them from potential harm. Their deaths are frequently due to encounters with adult males, called boars. Wolves also sometimes prey on young Grizzly bear cubs. The term "Grizzly" is a colloquial name that refers to the animal's coloration. It means "grey-like." Most adult Grizzlies range from 350 to 700 pounds, rarely going over 1000 pounds. The Grizzly's reputation for ferociousness toward people makes the animal seem much larger.

Ninety percent of North America's estimated 40,000 bears are found in Alaska, the Yukon ,the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia, and in the mainland Northwest Territories. Less than 800 bears still exist in the continental United States.

Grizzlies have suffered from both destruction of wildlands and the belief that they are dangerous to cattle, sheep and humans. There are, however, some attempts to protect them in their remaining habitats.

Billy Waska

The Brown Bear	- Gabriel Duny
Higuma	- Barbara Andrew
Polar Bear	- Tina Papp
Black Bears	- Henry S. Hunter
Asiatic Black Bear (Selenarctos thibetanus)	- Leslie Hunter Jr.
Sloth Bear	- LaVerne J. Manumik
Spectacled Bears Tremarctos ornatus	- Flora M. Evan
Panda Bear	- Palassa Sergie
Sun Bear	- Marlene Papp
Grizzly Bear	- Billy Waska
The Body of a Grizzly Bear	- Tina Papp
Hibernation and Denning of Grizzly Bears	- Flora Evan

 

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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