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!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Everett Semone At the airport

On Monday we worked and rehearsed our slide show and on Tuesday we went for a field trip to a wolf den and a black animal den. Wednesday we worked on both slide shows and took a boat ride to see more pit houses and hike to St. Joe Hill. Today I woke up at 8 in the morning and checked all my bags to see if I had everything then I went to school around 8:30. At nine fifteen we left to Aniak, after sitting in Aniak for about ten minutes we left to Anchorage. we are now waiting for our flight to Salt Lake City.

At the Anchorage Airport

Whew! What a day in Anchorage today! What a time the last THREE days! We haven't even had time to BLOG!

Right now we are sitting in the North Terminal of the Ted Stevens International Airport. We just went to Customs to declare our iPod's, computers and digital cameras so we can ensure their safety when we return to the United States. This international travel is wild! Anyway, I'll let the boys write more. We have about and hour and a half to wait so they get to BLOG. The only concern I have at this point is finding the appropriate adapters and converters for our electrical stuff from 110-220 or 240 in South Africa. I'll load pictures soon!