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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.

 

 

 

 

In The Year 2097

It was a bright winter morning when I looked out my apartment window here in Marshall and noticed a lot of pollution in the air. The main street was full of people as they drove in their cars and trucks to work. The pollution dimmed the bright sunlight as it stayed steadily in the air. Until now I hadn't realized how much Marshall had changed over the past few years.

The city we live in was once a clean little village but is now populated with over 30 thousand people. The streets are trashy and the tundra is crowded with houses making for little space to build things on. Houses stretch clear across the tundra from valley to valley. Pilcher Mountain now looks small because of all the hotels, stores, and other huge buildings there.

My sons and I were going to go moose hunting but the weather changed dramatically. From snow to slush, then it started raining hard outside. It was strange because it was in the month of December. The night before when we watched the weather forecast, they said that it was going to be that way a lot from here on in because of global warming.

For the past twenty years now there hasn't been any moose hunting because of the bad weather in December. And that affects the Native people because people who don t have jobs in this city can't get AFDC or foodstamps anymore because the Government cut off welfare checks and foodstamps back in the late 1900's.

We have seen great changes in the seasons that have affected many people all over the world. Our concerns about Global Warming, El Nino, and the Greenhouse Effect are more serious now. We are the cause of these problems, and they have caused us to have health problems.

The ozone hole is now open 3/4 of the earth's size. And more and more people are having skin cancer because of it. Average temperatures are now 10 degrees higher than normal worldwide. During our winters we get hardly any snow, and the summers are way hotter than before. It's also really dry in the spring.

Many years ago we started seeing different fish species from South America, Africa, and Mexico come up as far as the Bering Strait. All of our flora and fauna have moved farther north. And sadly, most of the salmon that used to come up the Yukon River have now disappeared. That has made it really difficult for us who have depended on fish for thousands of years.

Jack George

In The Year 2097

 

Marshall 2097

- Willie Paul Fitka

One Big Happy Desert

- Charlotte Alstrom

Marshall's Future

- Joel Isaac

Marshall As We Know It

- Cheryl Hunter

Some Time In The Future

- Jonathan Boots

Hope 2097

- Rose Lynn Fitka

In The Year 2097

- Jack George

This! or This?

 

Fishy Research Student Whoppers Parent Whoppers Elder Whoppers
Staff Whoppers Adventures Under the Sea Global Warming The Crystal Ball--Imagining how it will be

 

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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