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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.

 

 

 

 

Fishing on the Kuskokwim

 

During the summer of 1997 my summer went by too fast. Not long after school got out I went over to the Kuskokwim River. I flew from Marshall to Akiachak by plane. At Bethel I saw my cousins, Tobby Jackson and Shawn George at Swansons. They came in from Akiachak in a little boat. I asked Tobby if he had room for one more passenger. He told me that he had only one person who rode with him from Akiachak. So he brought my baggage down to his boat and went out shopping with his friends at the bigger and better stores. About an hour later he told me that he was going down to the boat to head up to Akiachak. A short forty-five minute ride and there we were at Akiachak. The first place I stopped was my uncle's house. He wasn't home but his kids were. They made me feel at home by letting me have my own room with my own bed. After unpacking I went over to Mark Kassayuli's house and asked him a few questions about where the old hang-outs were. Then I went to the pool hall where I saw my old buddies.

The next day Mark and I went over to his fish camp and got his nets ready for the first commercial fishing opening. We had to mend the nets and take out all the sticks he got caught in the net. We also had to paint his license number on the side of his boat and write it on all his fishing equipment. Then we went out on the river and made a short drift. While we were pulling in the net we hit a snag. For a while I thought that it wouldn't be too bad, but when we hit the snag we had a really hard time taking out the net. We were stuck on the snag for about a half-hour. After we finally got the net out we brought it back to his fish camp where we had to mend it all over again.

When we finally went out commercial fishing we didn't catch much fish. We only made about $150 profit. Altogether we made about $350. I thought that the fish buyers would buy for a better price but they bought kings for only .40 a pound and chums for .20 a pound. They bought reds for $1.00 per pound. I only fished a few other times and then told Mark that I was going home to fish with my dad. He said it was O.K. because he had someone to help him. So the next day I came home to Marshall and fished with my dad.

Joel Isaac
Fishing on the Kuskokwim

Troublesome Kids

- Tatiana Sergie

Spring Camping

- Jonathan Boots

Do You Have Any Talking Balls?

- Charlotte Alstrom

A Different Village

- Jackie Paul George

Fishing on the Kuskokwim

- Joel Isaac

Scott's First Muskrat

- Joe Fitka

Camping With Crystal

- Cheryl Hunter

Camping with My Family

- Rose Lynn Fitka

Bethel to Pilot

- Kathy Duny

Lazy in Bethel

- Willie Paul Fitka

Back and Forth

- Lois Moore

 

 

Tales from Students

Tales from Parents and Community

Tales from our Elders

Tales from our School Staff

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  
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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