 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.
WOLF
LAIR
It was the middle of winter when
Larry was flying his plane to his cabin to do some fishing. He was
miles away from any village when his engine stopped working and he
crashed in the deep snow and brush of some high hills. But Larry was
not hurt and he climbed out of his now useless plane. It was too cold
for him to try to walk to his cabin which was more than 15 miles away
and he hadn't told anybody where he was going. As he looked around he
saw the remains of a wolf-killed moose and a fox eating at the scraps
of meat that were left on the bones. He'd been scared of wolves ever
since his little sister was killed by a wolf-dog while playing in the
woods.
It started to snow and get dark so he
made a shelter in a snowbank. All his food was in his cabin so he was
hungry, but he thought he could find a rabbit or bird to eat. The
only firearm he brought was a .44 magnum which he thought would have
to do. He crawled to the top of a hill to look around, and he was
surprised to see a black wolf lying by a rabbit trail and a rabbit
hopping in its direction.
Larry sat down to watch what would
happen. When the rabbit was passing the wolf, the wolf leaped towards
the helpless rabbit, bit him on the neck and violently shook him from
side to side until he died. Then the wolf began to eat the rabbit.
When the wolf caught Larry's scent, he growled at him. Larry was
scared and went back down the hill to hunt something to eat for
himself. He looked around, and there were wolf tracks everywhere, but
even though he felt one might attack him, he kept on hunting. In the
trees he found some fresh moose tracks and followed them into a
meadow where he saw the moose browsing. Larry was careful not to make
too much noise while walking through the deep snow and when he got
close enough he shot twice quickly and the moose fell. He had left
his knife back in a snowhouse he had built so he went to get it. It
took him two hours to get back to the meadow, and by then he knew it
was too late. Eleven wolves were trying to tear the meat off the
carcass of the moose. Larry had only five bullets left and was
tempted to shoot at the wolves, but he decided he'd be better off
looking for something else to hunt.
After three more hours of
unsuccessful hunting, Larry finally saw a rabbit hopping slowly along
the trail back to his snowhouse, and he shot it. As he was walking
back, a plane flew right over him. Larry thought they might send a
helicopter to pick him up because there were trees everywhere and no
place to land, but his wrecked plane was covered with snow and the
plane overhead didn't see it.
After he reached his snowhouse Larry
began to eat the rabbit raw because he didn't have any matches to
start a fire. When he was full he climbed to the top of a hill to
look for something else to hunt, but he came down 15 minutes later
because it was too dark for him to see. That night he heard wolf
howls almost all night long, and some sounded like they were right
outside his snowhouse. In the morning he was awakened by wolves
howling and barking close by. When he looked outside, he saw three
wolves eating a caribou carcass. A little while later he heard a
plane coming but he was scared of the wolves so he didn't go out
until the wolves finished eating. Larry then climbed to the top of
the nearby hill again to look around for something else to hunt. He
looked down the hill at the caribou carcass and saw the three wolves
playing with one another there. Later when a fox trotted by the three
wolves chased him until they disappeared in the trees. Larry looked
around again and when he saw some spruce grouse in the trees beside
him, he shot one of them.
While walking back down to his
snowhouse he heard another plane coming. He didn't know how to get
the plane's attention but he had an idea. He ran to his snow-covered
plane and broke off a mirror that he had inside. Then he signaled the
plane, and after spotting him the plane dropped a box. Larry picked
up the box and opened it. Inside there were food and a piece of paper
that read "A helicopter will pick you up later tonight."
Larry climbed back up the hill again
and ate his food. He looked down and could see the wolves playing
below. Then the helicopter came.
By: Joey Coffee
Marshall School
True
Tales
Small
Tales
Poems
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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