 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 Story of My
Life
On the first of May when I first saw
the light of day, I was scared and cold from the liquids all over my
skin from my mother's womb. It wasn't till the next day that I
started to walk. It was so cool to walk around and to explore. At
first I was really scared to walk around because I saw a lot of
strange animals everywhere. During the next few days I was running
around playing with my brother and sister. After drinking milk from
my mother for a couple of weeks, I started to watch what my mother
was eating and copied what she was doing. I started to eat grass and
some other stuff. While we were all eating in a great big meadow one
of my brothers choked on some grass and we didn't know what to do. I
tried to ask him what was wrong, but he couldn't answer. In a couple
of minutes he fell to the ground and he was dead. We all hung around
the corpse for a couple of days waiting for him to wake up from his
long sleep, but he never did get up and we all moved on. We were all
still trying to get over his death but it was hard for all of
us.
Two years later my antlers were
finally big enough to use to pick on my friends. While I was playing
with one of my friends I noticed that my mother was not around my
area. I tried calling for her but she did not answer me. I started to
panic. A while later I saw her with a new born baby. I tried to stick
with her, but she would just chase me off, and I decided it would be
better for me anyway. So I decided to run around and try to find a
mate. I tried to get this one chick, but this bigger bull tried to
fight me and I took off. Every time I tried to find a mate a bigger
bull would always chase me off. So I got fed up with it and forgot
about finding a mate.
One day early in September I decided
to go check out a slough to get a drink of water. I was very thirsty
and I couldn't find any water where I was eating. I started to run as
fast as I could to the nearest slough, and it took me only about five
minutes to get there. While I was drinking water I heard this really
loud bang far back in the slough, then I heard this really loud
buzzing noise that I'd never heard before. I was curious, so I
decided to wait and see what the noise was. It took a long time till
it finally came in sight. It was going really fast right on top of
the water. I watched it for a while, then I saw something in the
thing run up to the front with a long stick. Then I heard that really
loud bang again. I saw something splat right in the mud in front of
me, and I got scared and took off running. While I was running, those
things were whizzing by all around me. I got really scared then, and
I started to run as fast as I could. While I was just picking up some
speed I felt something jump up from the ground and bite me in the
buttocks. When it hit me I stopped right in my tracks because of the
terrible pain. When I stopped I felt more of those things going into
my body. I fell down to the ground and felt my soul escaping from my
body. Then I called out for my mother, but she never came
around.
The last thing I saw before my soul
escaped were strange beings coming towards me. They had only two legs
and were walking upright. They bent over and cut my throat with a
sharp object, and I felt all the blood draining from my body. A
minute later I saw my dead body as I floated up in the air. Before I
knew it, I was up in moose heaven where I don't think I'd ever seen
so many moose in my whole life. There I lived happily ever after with
all my friends and my new wife. The big bulls didn't pick on me up
there.
By: David Andrew
(Alces
alces) The Moose
Moose
Fact Sheet
Student
Stories
Stories
By Parents
Stories
By Elders
Stories
By Successful Hunters
Stories
By School Staff
"If
I were a Moose…"
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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