 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.
Editorial
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Education is Very
Important!
How important is giving good
education to rural Alaskans? Well, if you live out here in one of the
villages, you would say that it is very important to have a good
education, because the world is changing so fast you couldn't
possibly live successfully without a high school diploma. But people
in Juneau don't seem to realize the significance of education here in
rural Alaska. They have proposed Senate Bill 36 which would give $23
million dollars of rural education funding to Anchorage and
Fairbanks. Even though they did take out a 4% income tax that only
people working in REAA's would have paid, there is still a big issue
about the amount of money the state is going to take away from the
rural schools. Students in rural areas would still be learning, but
they wouldn't be getting a quality education because the schools in
these districts wouldn't be getting enough money to hire enough
teachers or buy the appropriate materials necessary for
learning.
If SB 36 passes, the Lower Yukon
School District will be losing $1.5 million to urban schools. Who
could call that fair? That's a lot of money that could be used on
books and other learning tools for our schools. Right now you hear
students in Marshall School asking teachers why the school can't get
this or that? The teachers all have the same answers for the
students, "The school doesn't have enough money," or, "The district
doesn't have enough money." How is it going to be when the LYSD
doesn't get the additional $1 .5 million the state is going to take
away? It's like this bill is telling us that urban students are more
important to educate than the students in rural Alaska. I would call
this discriminating against rural schools! I think that all people
are equally important to educate. We all deserve as good an education
as everybody else.
If the State Legislature has its way,
it is going to be hard on all the schools in the Lower Yukon School
District, and it is going to be hard on the students. They might even
have to travel to Anchorage or Fairbanks to get a quality education.
And It could be hard for some families to send their kids away to
school because they need all the help they can get around the house,
or they just don't have enough money. Even though the students would
still be learning if they stayed in rural Alaska, it's hard to tell
if staying here for school would be worth it. Rural schools probably
wouldn't have enough money to pay for enough teachers and other
things, like maintenance, to keep the schools in good shape and
provide for an efficient learning environment.
This bill is on the floor of the
Senate right now, and nobody knows what is going to happen to it. If
you really care about your own education or your children's
education, you should write to your senators or representatives and
tell them what you think. The more negative responses to this bill,
the better. If the Senate does pass this bill, it is going to be
really different here in the L.Y.S.D., as well as in all the other
rural Alaskan school districts.
It is hard to understand why the
Senate is considering this bill. It is also hard to understand who
would have the heart to think up something like this. From living in
the village all these years, it is easy for me to conclude that the
people who thought up this bill were people from the cities, because
they don't know what it is like living out in rural
Alaska.
Charlotte
Alstrom
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Education is Very
Important!
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- Charlotte
Alstrom
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School
News
Community
News
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Roman Catholic
Church
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- Tassie Fitka
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Russian Orthodox
Church
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- Tassie Fitka
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Dear
Gummie
Look
To The Stars
Your Personal Horoscope
Dedications
Fair
Weather Camping
By: Agnes Owletuck
Message
Page (in
pdf)
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 |
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| M&M Monthly |
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| 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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