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NPR Reporter Guy Raz took a drive through South Dakota's East River region and found a mix of multi-generation ethnic groups preserving the language and customs of their homelands while making their lives in the New World.

Producer Taki Telonidis and Reporter Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center tell the story of the repatriation of a lock of hair from Chief Big Foot, the leader of the Sioux band that was massacred soldiers of then U.S. Cavalry at Wounded Knee in 1880. Chief Big Foot's lock of hair was taken by a white trader and given to the Massachusetts Historical Society where it remained until this summer when it was retuned to land of Chief Big Foot's people.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden speaks with host Jacki Lyden about today's decision by the PLO to postpone a declaration of statehood for at least two months. PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat had said the Palestinians would formally declare statehood on September 13th.

Mitch Teich of member station KNAU reports on the efforts to get the Havasupai tribe hooked up to the Internet. The Havasupai make up the only town inside the Grand Canyon. But steep canyon walls and extreme weather have made Internet access difficult until now.

From Deadwood, a gold rush town of the 1880s that turned to casino gambling in the 1990s to seek economic stability, NPR Correspondent Margot Adler tells a story about the power of myth, legend and reinvention in the West.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that a new study of hurricanes in the U.S. shows many more people have died far inland than along the coasts when storms hit. That's because storm surges catch them by surprise, in their cars.

Most people don't think of rivers when they think of Los Angeles, but in fact, the city does have one. And as Laura Sydell reports, activists are working hard to beautify that body of water which has become much more closely associated with scary scenes in movies than a bucolic retreat for local residents.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with French farmer and activist Jose Bove, who is in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend attending a conference titled, "Taste, Technology and Terroir: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Food as Culture." ("Terroir" means the relationship between food and the land.)

Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR's Julie Rovner about the health care proposals from presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush. Rovner says that while Universal Health Care Coverage was the buzz word in health care reform some years ago, there's been little mention of it this election season - except from Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

From the Crazy Horse Monument in South Dakota's Black Hills, flutist Lakota George plays a native song.