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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.

 

 

 

 

 

Piciatun Pissuutuli

 

A long time ago there was a man who used to like to go hunting for different kinds of sea mammals. He used to go seal hunting a lot during the summertime out on the ocean in a qayaq. When he went he took along a .22 rifle and a harpoon. By the time he came home he had usually caught either a hair seal or a maklak seal. Sometimes when he didn't catch any seals, he would bring home sea birds that swim out on the ocean.

Because it was hard in the winter he never went seal hunting then. When spring came though he took his low sled, without dogs to pull it, and he would go back out to the ocean. Fastened to his low sled was his gayaq. Then he would put his qayaq into the water and go seal hunting. Sometimes he would come back home without catching anything, but occasionally he would be lucky and bring home a hair seal, spotted seal, or a maklak. During the fall though he never used to catch maklaks.

When the sea ice thawed and moved out he used to go to his spring camp. And when the herring fish came, he and his family fished for them, collected herring eggs, dug for clams and mussels, and hunted for sea animals too.. That is what they did every year. In the spring he ate from the ocean.

In the summer he ate tomcod, king salmon, dog salmon and devilfish. He got all of these from the ocean, including clams. When winter came again he and his family used the ocean, as always, to get foods like sea birds, hair seals, spotted seals, and sometimes maklaks.

That's the way he used to live in this area, hunting and fishing to survive, and supporting his family and others to keep them fed in this manner.

 

Story told by:

Elizabeth Kasayuli

Piciatun Pissuutuli Piciatun Pissuutuli
Piciatun Pissuutuli Piciatun Pissuutuli
 

Aka tamaani yugtangqelliiniuq taumek pissuutuliimek picaitun. Waten idsurmi ayaagaqluni unaavet imarrpigmun qamiigarluni qayakun. Nutlirluni twenty-two-mek nanerpani-llu ayaulluki. Waten caqami maklamek pitaqluni. Iliikun-llu tamaakunek pitenritaqami tekiutaqlluni yaquliqaagarnek mani imarpigmi kuimatulrianek.

Tuai uksumi waten piunailgan qaniigaiyuinateng. Taugam ataam upnerkaraakan ataam tauna yuk qaniigautni qamiigaucirluni qimugtailengermi qaniigaucirluni taukuk qamurturlukek atratullunuuluni tamaavet imarpigmun. Qamiigautem iluani qayaa ikumaluni tuaten tamaani imapigmy qamiigaratulliniiluni iliikun camek pitqerpegnani utertaq-lluni taugaam iliikun waten ataam issurinek naiyirnek pitaqlluni. Uksumi taugaam muklagcuinani.

Tua-llu cikuq ayaagaqan tuavet upagvirmegnun ayagaqlluteng. Igalluapit tekitaqata iqalluarpilluteng ellquarsurluteng cenaarayagsurluteng cunek-llu unaani imarpigniutanek pissurluteng. Tuaten pirllainatullinii'luteng. Waten upnerkami imarpigmek amaaken nertuluuteng. Kiagmillcali tamaaken imarpigmek iqalluanek taryaqvagnek kangitnernek nertuliinek-llu neraqlluteng. Cenaarayagnek-llu neraqluteng. Tua-llu uksuaran ataam nerviklluku tamaana imagpik makunek imarpim yaqulgitnek isuurinek nai-irnek caaqameng-llu maklanek. Taui tuaten yeeyaraa uum aiyuuqelliiniluuni. Maaken imarpigmek angungnaqurallni tuaten ilaani auluksuggluki neruumaurcelluuki.

 

Story told by:

Elizabeth Kasayuli

 Piciatun Pissuutuli

The Fisherman and the Yukcuaraq
Kuviasta-llu Yukcuaraq-llu

Joe Kaganak

The Eiders

Teddy Sundown

"The Sea-Bear that turned into a Seal"

Michael Uttereyuk Sr./Michael Uttereyuk Jr.

When I was Young

Nathan Kaganak/Stella Walker

Miklemni

Nathan Kaganak

The Whale That Changed Into a Wolf

Irene Kaganak/LouAnn Aguchak

The Mouse Who Jumped
Uggnarayaq Qeckatalera

Teddy Sundown/Norma Charlie

Danger Out There

Bruno Kasayuli, Sr.

Piciatun Pissuutuli

Elizabeth Kasayuli

  Student Stories of the Bering
-fiction-

Student Stories of the Bering
-nonfiction-

  

Stories by Elders and Others

 

Poems of The Sea

 

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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