Dean Blount was a Cold War-era Russian language specialist in Turkey. Back home on Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation, he is trying to ensure that his two Native languages - Dakota and Nakota - are passed on. At the Presbyterian church where he is a lay minister, he has taught his tiny congregation to sing hymns in Dakota.

This week on Mountain West Voices: Producer Clay Scott gets a trim at the Columbus, Montana barbershop of a man who has been cutting hair in the same shop since 1939.

This week on Mountain West Voices: the second part of the extraordinary saga of the late Marie Johnson, who as a young woman was cut off from her Siberian village during the Russian Civil War, made her way to the Bering Sea, and eventually settled in Polson, Montana.

This week on Mountain West Voices: The story of a couple, who left good careers behind, and invested their life savings in a farm in a remote part of north-central Montana.

After a lifetime of advocating for wilderness protection and mental health issues, Montana resident Susan Miles has become an advocate for research into the disease that affects her own life: Parkinson's.

This week on Mountain West Voices: Part 1 of a series telling the story of Maria Zimina - later Marie Johnson of Polson, Montana - who was caught up the turmoil of the Russian civil war in 1919 while on a trip to Vladivostok. Cut off from her family and with no money, she made her way east and north toward the Russian Arctic.

Mountain West Voices producer Clay gets a trim in the Columbus, Montana shop of Bob Harsha, a 92-year-old barber who has been cutting hair since he was 18.

This week on Mountain West Voices: As Marc Jarvey prepares to leave the Rocky Boy's Reservation for his freshman year at Montana State University Bozeman, he talks about the challenges he expects to encounter as a young, gay Native American.

After spending many years as aid workers in Haiti, a Canadian couple returns home, and discovers that they can continue their humanitarian mission in rural Saskatchewan.

This week on Mountain West Voices: The second in a series of stories from the Nekaneet Reserve in the Cypress Hills of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Alvin Francis and Clarence Oakes talk about their connection to their home, the difficulty of staying, and the price of leaving