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!

Friday, June 20, 2008

Jack at the Anchorage Airport

Three Days ago we went up to the run way to see the old pit house from long ago. Day before yesterday we went for a ride back into Lower Village. Just yesterday we went for another ride to Shageluk Slough then we went to Saint Joe Hill to look at two rocks.

Jamie is at the Anchorage Airport/6-19-08

on Monday we went to the airport to look at the old pit houses, then we went to the clinic and got our hepatitis A and B immunizations. Tuesday we worked on the slide shows in the morning then in the afternoon we went for a boat ride with Rudy to go and look at a wolf den and a black animal den. Wednesday we finished our slide shows then I went home and got all my stuff packed. this morning i woke up and went to the school with my luggage to wait for the plane. After we got to Aniak we left to Anchorage. Right now we are waiting in the Anchorage International Airport for our flight to Salt Lake City, Utah.