The local dSph galaxies are the darkest known systems in the Universe, but the distribution of dark matter in them remains poorly constrained due to the difficulties of kinematic measurements of their stars. I describe the status of a project that uses the newly-completed Michigan/MIKE Fiber System (MMFS) designed to obtain 1000's of stellar velocities in all of the Southern dSph galaxies. Some early results for Fornax and Sculptor are presenting representing velocities for more than 1500 stars in these galaxies. I will also present an outline of a new non-parametric analysis aimed at determining the mass distribution from these kinematic measurements with as few classical dynamical assumptions as possible, and without any explicit reliance on an underlying dyanmical model. The operation of MMFS is summarized from the viewpoint of potential future users.

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