This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit to the Nekaneet Reserve in southwest Saskatchewan. Elder Linda Oakes talks about racism, about the importance of the Cree language, and about her people's fight to remain in their ancestral home in the Cypress Hills.

This week on Mountain West Voices: An adventure foraging for the mysterious and delicious morel in the cedar forests of eastern Idaho.

This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit with Joel Shupack, a singer-songwriter, podcaster and storyteller on a year-long bicycle tour around the United States.

This week on Mountain West Voices: Master canoe builder Greg Morley talks about his life-long love of exploring the wilderness in his own hand-crafted cedar boats.

This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit to the tap dance studio of Justin Trafton in Helena, Montana, for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of tap dancing.

This week on Mountain West Voices: A retired sociology professor talks about the difficulties of a mixed-race upbringing in mostly white Montana.

Four exchange students - from China, Thailand, Korea and Mexico - spend a year in tiny Judith Gap, Montana. All four students are from cities of several million, and attended schools with thousands of students - Judith Gap has 120 inhabitants, and the high school had an enrollment of only two - before the exchange students arrived.

This week on Mountain West Voices: When Ruth Walter and her husband, both of them with 8th grade educations, decided to take their three children and leave the Flat Willow Hutterite Colony to make a new life for themselves, they 'didn't have a kernel of salt in their cupboard.' 22 years later, they are pillars of the tiny Montana farm community of Judith Gap.

Sapphire Carter's mother told her she would have to learn to 'walk in two worlds.' That was before the Chippewa-Cree girl from the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation had won the prestigious Gates Millenium Scholarship. Sapphire surprised her parents by opting to enroll at Carroll College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Helena, Montana, where non-white faces are few and far between. This is the story of her journey.

When Sil and Norman Strung were 19, they moved from Long Island to Montana to reinvent their lives. More than 50 years later, Sil is still living in the log cabin she and Norman built. She reflects on her life as a teacher, writer, hunting guide, and chef.