 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 Eiders
One day long ago the sea was as blue as the sky around it.
As the red sun rose from the eastern horizon far away, there were
2 common eiders paddling a boat in the vast sea. While they were
paddling the boat the younger brother of the eider started to cry, so
his older brother sang him a song to try to cheer him up.
The song went like this, "Angiiriya hangara Angiiriya hangara
Paugtu Mauku nunalarrku Mauku Ai-yi. Young eider, stop crying,
something terrible might happen to us."
But he did not stop, so again his older brother sang. "Angiiriya
hangara Angiiriya hangara paugtu mauku alalrratu mauku aiyi." He
stopped crying then because his older brother had warned him.
After a while they hear another song that went like this, "Quartagyakmakut
quarytut makut quartaryagtut makut quartaryagtut
illiat uiknaiykenka taugia-a."
The song sounded like it was coming from the sky and they
looked
up. There in the dark blue sky coming down was a person holding the
front end of it's shirt tail. The older eider then said to the
younder eider, "Younger eider you have cried too much. Look what has
come upon us."
When it came downthey saw it was a woman. When the woman was near
them she dropped whatever she had in her front pocket into the sea,
and when it fell in it turned part of the vast sea into land and
there they found them-selves in a boat on the beach.
Soon the young eider's older brother got married to the woman and
they lived in a little house on the beach.
One day the eider and his younger brother went hunting for
reindeer and caribou. They went into the forest and there they saw 3
caribou standing. The younger brother took aim but suddenly his bow
string broke.
When they came back home and the older brother told his wife all
about their misfortune, right away she started to make a new bow
string.
Before they went on their next hunting trip the older brother had
told his wife not to poke at his younger brother's face no matter how
childish his younger brother acted. But while she was trying to braid
the sinew for the bow-string, the younger brother started to bug her,
I mean really bug her, until she poked in the face with the needle.
Instantly he fell dead and when she turned him over she found many
needle holes in the young eider's face.
Being very scared, the woman buried the eider in the back
of the
house where she kept piles of grass, and that's where the young eider
was hidden, but not very well. When the husband came in looking for
his younger brother, the woman said she did not know where he was.
But while he was looking around toward the back of the house he saw
the knees of his younger brother, which had not been hidden very
well. He then said to his wife, "I thought I told you not to poke his
face with your needle." And while he was looking at his dead younger
brother the woman was so scared she ran up into the hills on the
beach carrying her pike fish parka with her.
Immediately the man ran out after her, yelling to her that he
would not do anything to her and that he needed her to stay with. But
she did not listen and ran up into the hills until she was out of
sight. Then the older brother picked up his younger brother's body
and put it in his kayak and they both went back to the sea from where
they came.
Tuai
By Teddy Sundown
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 |
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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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