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Last Hurrah?

June 3, 2008

Hillary Clinton made her final swing through southeast South Dakota, stopping in Yankton for a rally at Yankton High School on the last day of campaigning before the state's primary June 3. South Dakota and neighboring Montana hold the final primaries in the 2008 presidential campaign.

(This story was produced as a class assignment at the American Indian Journalism Institute.)

Sarah Welliver, Metis, is a graduate of the University of Montana in Missoula. This summer she will start a six-month photo internship at The Santa Fe New Mexican. Last summer Welliver interned at the Detroit Free Press under the Chips Quinn Scholars Program.

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