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On the Campaign Trail With Denise Juneau

May 30, 2008
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Denise Juneau, a Mandan-Hidatsa and a Democrat, is running for the office of state superintendent of public instruction in Montana.

Juneau has been endorsed by INDN's List. She is running against several other Democrats whose electoral fates will be decided by Montana voters in the state's June 3 primary.

Adam Sings In The Timber, Crow, is a senior majoring in photojournalism at the University of Montana in Missoula. A graduate of the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute, Sings In The Timber has had photo internships at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and the Billings Gazette and Great Falls Tribune in Montana. In October 2007, he attended the Eddie Adams Workshop, an intense four-day gathering of top photojournalism professionals in New York City and won a scholarship as the top student.

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