By Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan
VERMILLION, SD- The Taffetas’ rendition of “Mister Sandman” will put you on Cloud 9.
But if “Mister Sandman” and other songs in The Taffetas’ “Musical Journey Through the Fabulous Fifties” put you to sleep, you could be cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
“The Taffetas” are a fictitious musical quartet modeled after the McGuire Sisters, the Fontane [...]

1:57 p.m. CDT: Black Sheep Coffee Shop, Sioux Falls

One man stood out to me as an interview prospect. His table was less than 10 feet from mine. I walked up to him, requested an interview, and he agreed, though hesitantly. His birth name is James Starkey, but he goes by Wanbli WiWohkpe, a Lakota name.
WiWohkpe [...]

1:09 p.m. CDT, Sioux Falls:
After a voyage to find the office of Sioux Falls Mayor Dave Munson, we received a warm welcome. David Kranz, a well-known political reporter for the Argus Leader, gave me a firm handshake and welcomed me into the conference room.
Jim Cheeseman, multimedia news editor at the Argus Leader, asked instructor Kelly [...]

Hillary Clinton made her final swing through southeast South Dakota, stopping in Yankton for a rally at the Yankton High School.

(Soundslide by Sarah Welliever, AIJI Staff)

By Sarah Brubeck, Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan and Amelia Quiroga
AIJI Staff Writers
VERMILLION, S.D.—Gathered on opening night of the American Indian Journalism Institute June 1, students from 13 states and 16 native tribes were told by Jack Marsh, vice president for diversity at the Freedom Forum, “What you learn in the next three weeks will change your life [...]