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Submitted by Melissa Morgan on Mon, 2007-06-11 12:37.

VERMILLION -- For Sandra White Shield, the American Indian Journalism Institute has served as a rebirth.

“I view this as being a turning point in my life,” said White Shield, a resident of Porcupine, S.D. “I’ve always been interested in writing and I saw this as an opportunity to further something I had already started.”

White Shield applied to the institute after watching a film about it in one of the classes she attends at Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, S.D., but didn’t think she’d be accepted or that she’d be able to get time off work to attend.

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