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Liane reads a selection of items from recent newspapers.

Liane tells the story of Joe Red Cloud, a sixth-generation descendant of a famed Sioux chief, who is working to build economic opportunity on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, one of the poorest communities in the United States.

Superintendant Bill Supernaugh of the Badlands National Park takes Liane on a tour of the forbidding landscape.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We ask listeners for their questions for the Presidential candidates.

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 science reporter David Kestenbaum about whether or not the hottest item of Olympic clothing will really help athletes swim faster or just make them look faster.

Host Jacki Lyden reads leaders from listeners.