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

Jack: Thursday, June 26, Field Day #2

After I woke up I had to eat breakfast, then we went to our field trip tour group for the day, to be more specific, "My Rocket Pincushion". First we went to the Wetlands. We got to climb a little hill, talk about what was growing there and investigate. They said it was winter there so hardly anything was growing and many leaves were falling off. Our group was asked to sketch a plant that still had leaves on it and it took me quite awhile because I had to give a lot of detail. Everyday since I have been in South Africa I have been meeting new friends from all over the world including many from South Africa. It is cool to meet new friends!

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