 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.
Bane
Pickaz
This summer I took my mom on a salmon
berry picking trip to a slough called "Cuqartalek", which is right
across the river from Pilot Station. We left Marshall on the
fourteenth of July with plans to spend four beautiful days with
berries, bugs, rain, cold, and relatives. It was sort of like a
family bonding experience, and although ninety percent of my time
there was boring, the other ten percent was serious fun.
The fun started with the ride there,
which was three and a half hours long--one hour to Pilot and two and
a half from there to the picking spot. The slough is narrow and has a
lot of turns, so at high speeds it is a little dangerous. When we
were about half way there we saw a moose and stopped to say "Holy
Cow!", then we were on our way. We stopped again at the site of an
old village, which is located on a fork where on the right the slough
goes all the way out to sea, and on the left it leads to a lake. We
took the left fork and rode up the slough for about twenty minutes
where we stopped, picked some salmon berries and set up camp
there.
The next morning after breakfast we
left by boat for other patches of tundra which hopefully had lots of
berries. While the women picked, Garrett and I and another cousin
stayed in the boats rod and reeling. But there were hardly any fish
where we were, so later on we went to a place that was filled with
small, very aggressive pike. After we got tired of catching small
fish we went exploring and found a lake that none of us knew about.
We tried fishing there and I almost caught one out in the middle.
When it got late we picked up my mom and the others and headed back
to camp.
I woke up late the next day because
there was nothing to do but pick berries, and usually I'd rather do
nothing than pick berries. In the early afternoon though we did our
routine berry hunt until early in the evening. When we got back to
camp our parents began to talk about how little food we had. So
Garrett and I and a relative ended up going hunting. After we got
home with our catch there was no more talk of being
hungry.
On our last day of camping, of course
we looked for berries again, and this time even I did some picking to
help fill my mom's bucket. Finally, around six P.M. our older ones
said that they had enough berries and we could go home. We drove
pretty fast because we wanted to
get home as quickly as possible to relax. We saw a black bear on our
way out but didn't stop. It took us a little more than two hours to
Pilot and an hour from there to Marshall. When we got home my mom
stirred up a batch of akutaq with the berries we picked and all of us
enjoyed it very much.
By: Ben
Peteroff
Student
Stories
Other
Student Stories
Stories
of Summers Past
Adios
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 |
|
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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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