CRAZY HORSE, S.D.—A reporting team of six student videographers at last month’s Native American Journalism Career Conference asked some of the 121 attendees to talk on camera about their dreams for the future and then produced this video.
The student videographers were Rafael Garcia of Marty (S.D.) Indian School; David Michaud of South Dakota State University in Brookings; Dawny Pretty Weasel of Oglala Lakota College, Eagle Nest College Center in Wanblee, S.D.; Audra Standing Bear of Oglala Lakota College-Eagle Nest; Destini Vaile of Blackfeet Community College in Browning, Mont., and Tristin Wolfname of Chief Dull Knife College in Lame Deer, Mont.
Their professional mentors were Matt Cecil, a journalism professor at South Dakota State University, and Randy Barrett, an SDSU broadcast journalism graduate student.
The three-day annual conference, held every April since 2000, takes place at Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. “This conference introduces and promotes journalism as a career path for Native youth who otherwise might not consider it,” Jack Marsh, Freedom Forum vice president and one of the conference founders, told the Argus Leader newspaper.
Other videos, audio slideshows and photo galleries produced by students at the Crazy Horse conference are available on the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute Web site.
[Editor's note: This video was originally published on the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute Web site and is used with permission.]
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