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

Jamie: Saturday, June 28, Departure Day #1

Today our plane leaves at 6:00 p.m. so until then, we got to run around Cape Town. We got all our bags and checked out of the dorms. First we went to the W and A Waterfront Mall, which is one of the biggest malls in the world. Right when we got to the Mall, I walked across the street and stood beside the ocean to watch the surf come in. When we got done at the Mall we headed back to the dorms to get our baggage so we could get to the airport a little early. Once we got to the airport we were told our Pilot got food poisoning so our flight was canceled. They brought all of us to hotel rooms and drove us there in a bus. When we got there we ate dinner and I went to look at their outdoor pool before it got too late.

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