About Us

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We are the students at the Innoko River High School, living in the last village on the Innoko River in the western Interior of Alaska.

Jamie Hamilton

Interests: Hunting, fishing and working on engines.

Hobbies: Basketball, snowboarding, snowmachining, and dirtbiking.

Favorite Native food: Willow grouse.

Reaction to being told we were going to SOUTH AFRICA:
At first I was speechless, and to this day I can not believe we were chosen to go.

Jamie

Jamie
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Our GLOBE Research

We have been a GLOBE school since 1998. Different classes of students have set up different study sites over the years but in 2005 our local research on our environment took on a different twist when lightening struck behind our village and burned a 15-acre area of land dangerously close to local homes.

The Alaska State Forestry Department hired the Shageluk Emergency Fire Fighting crew and the EFF crew from Nikolai to assist in putting out the fire. The fire lasted just two weeks but has provided us with long-term data on regrowth in a Boreal forest that has made us think about climate change and how it effects our cultural traditions and survival as the Deg Hitan people!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Everett: Friday, June 27, Closing Day

After breakfast we went to the Jameson Hall to listen to more of the Cultural presentations. Most of them danced and let anyone join them to dance. One of them gave everyone a quiz about Holland's history. They passed out a green paper and a red paper. The first question they asked I got wrong and had to sit down. They kept asking questions and if you got it wrong you had to sit down, the last one standing won a prize from them. After that a couple more Cultural presentations went on. After a little while they put out snacks in the back and everyone got a snack. After lunch Rudy gave his Closing Presentation. He talked about our village, traditions and a little about his family. After his presentation everyone got up and started clapping. After that we took the shuttles back to the dorms and we changed our clothes and took the buses to a restaurant to a place called "Moyo's". It took awhile to get there but they had good food there. We had to get up and get our own food, though. I grabbed a bunch of different meat, grapes and ice cream. We had to be quiet for a little while and someone brought on the stage a cheetah. When everyone got done eating we left back to the dorms.

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