 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.
An Encounter with
Death
It was back in the winter of 1997
when I thought my time on this earth was up. I was returning home to
Marshall from a basketball tournament at Russian Mission. I was told
by my other teammates not to travel in the stormy weather alone but
nobody else wanted to come home with me. I had to come home because I
would not be able to stand another night in Russian Mission. I got
ready and called my house to tell them I was on my way
home.
While driving through the portages it
seemed that the storm had settled down, so my fear was laid to rest,
at least I thought it was. But as soon as I hit the tundra trail my
eyes were blinded by the ferocious wind of the snow storm. Every
exposed part of my body seemed as if it was getting bit by a great
white shark. I stopped for while and tried to figure out where I was
and where I was going but I could not tell. The visibilty was only a
couple of feet. I tried to cover any area of my body that felt cold.
My adrenaline was flowing as I got scared and mad at the same time.
That feeling forced me to move on even though I didn't really know
where I was going to end up and the only real survival skill I had to
depend on was the word of prayer, and I humbly asked for His
guidance. As confident as I felt I was going in the right direction,
I still had my doubts that I would get home.
A while later I thought it was a good
time to check how much gas I had left. I was almost on empty so I
thought the most logical thing to do in that situation was stop. I
turned off my snowmachine and sat on the opposite side of where the
wind was coming from. As I sat staring into oblivion I wondered when
this living hell would stop?
The time that I was sitting there
felt like hours and my stomach was getting very hot and I started to
see weird illusions like elephants and kegs of beer passing by me. I
also saw a figure of a man with a staff in his hand. I was curious so
I started walking toward him, but he just disappeared as the sound of
snowmachines came near me. I looked around and there was the Marshall
Search and Rescue team. I went home with them but I had to stay a
while in the Bethel Hospital for my hypothermic symptoms.
I still wonder what the big black
figure was that I encountered out there. What he was doing at the
scene, and why, I do not know. Some say he was Death.
By: Chris Fitka
Authentic
Student Stories
Stories
by Parents
and Community
Stories
by Elders
Stories
by the Elementary
Creative
Student Stories
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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