An Anchorage school's haunted house tells Alaska Native legends
More than 40 students and volunteers at the Alaska Native Cultural Charter School in Anchorage built a haunted house around seven traditional stories.
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Students at the Alaska Native Cultural Charter School turned a haunted house into a walk through traditional stories, Alaska Public Media reported. More than 40 students and volunteers in Anchorage built it around seven Alaska Native legends.
The house is a school project with a count attached: seven stories, and more than 40 people who made the rooms. It is one October at one school, told by the students who chose those legends.
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At the Alaska Native Cultural Charter School in Anchorage, more than 40 students and volunteers built a haunted house. Instead of only plastic spiders, they built it around seven traditional Alaska Native stories. A legend is a story a people have told for a long time, often to explain the world or to teach how to act. The students turned those stories into rooms people could walk through. The project took a Halloween idea and filled it with the school's own cultures. Seven is the number of stories they chose. More than 40 is the number of people who built the house.
- How is a traditional story different from a costume-shop spooky tale?
- What would you need to build one room that tells a story?
- Whose stories should a school be careful to tell with respect?
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