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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.

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

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.

US immigration is at its highest level in decades. Many of those are arriving are women and children -- and groups that work with domestic violence shelters say they are increasingly receiving pleas for help from these women. This week, the Senate takes up the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which strengthens previous domestic violence legisation and gives refuge, counseling and legal status to foreign women married to American citizens or residents. Host Jacki Lyden follows one woman's journey from New Delhi to New York, from abused bride and spouse to safety and self-empowerment. This piece was produced by Davar Ardalan. There is more on our special page.

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.

We ask listeners for their questions for the Presidential candidates.

Poet and author Kathleen Norris reads an adaptation from her award-winning book, Dakota: A Spiritual Journey, telling of the geographic and social hallmarks that have drawn people to the state, and made it so great a challenge for natives and settlers to make their lives in the Dakota Territory.

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.

On archival tape from the University of South Dakota, the late Cowboy Poet Badger Clark reads the first poem he ever published.