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

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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

Jack: Friday, June 27, Closing Day

After I woke up and ate some breakfast we jumped on one of the Jammie Shuttle buses to Jameson Hall to hear more Cultural Presentations and people talking about things during the Closing Ceremony. After lunch we heard Rudy's presentation and it was better than ours. Ours, as in Jamie, Everett and I. After we got done at Jameson Hall we went to Leslie Hall to have lunch. The lunch we had was fantastic, the bed I had ever tasted. It was all their harvest vegetables with squash and corn. We went back to Jameson Hall to hear more people talking about different things with the climate and environment. At about 4:20 we went back to Gracha Mashel (our dorms) and had to change our clothes. We had very little time for that. Then we jumped back on another bus to to go out for dinner at a very special place. We had a really good day.

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