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

Jamie: Sunday, June 28, Departure Day #2

Today we got up and took the buses back to the airport. We got to the airport and had to stay in line for about 8 hours because they were having computer problems. Once we got our luggage checked in we went through security again and got on the plan to Dakar. The flight was about 9 hours, then after the plane was searched in Dakar we went to New York which took another 8-9 hours. Between Dakar and Cape Town there is a 2-hour time difference. Between Cape Town and New York there is a 6-hour time difference. Cape Town is 10-hours faster than Alaska's time. During this trip we went over the Rocky Mountains, flew over the Columbia River. 3-hours from Seattle to Anchorage, flying over Vancouver, Canada.

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