About Us

My photo
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
ALISON Shadow data

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

Jamie: Friday, June 27, Closing Day

Today was the last day of the conference. We went up to Jameson Hall and started off all the speeches. A few of the older people gave thanks for all the help, then Rudy started his speech. When Rudy was done everyone clapped for about 10-minutes because they enjoyed it so much. Right after the speeches they gave us time to talk and get each other's email addresses. I filled up a couple of pages with email address of everyone I met from all over the world. Eventually we took a bus back down to the Lower Campus to drop off our backpacks before we went out to dinner. The place we ate was an outdoor diner, with candlelight and African dancing. It was, by far, the nicest place I have ever eaten. After dinner one of the GLOBE managers asked everyone to be qiet because he has a surprise for us. Next thing I know thy had a massive Cheetah on stage. We got to look at it and listen to it's deep purr for about 15-minutes. After dinner and everything we took the buses back to the dorms so we could pack. As soon as we got back we were told the woman with the cheetah drives around Cape Town with it all the time because it's very tame.

No comments: