Mountain West Voices

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Sinopsis

Mountain West Voices with host Clay Scott is a program featuring the extraordinary stories of ordinary people throughout the Rocky Mountain West.

Episodios

  • Blowing In The Wind: A Montana Family Tries To Live Off-Grid

    24/04/2016 Duración: 04min

    In this episode of "Mountain West Voices:" A Montana couple talks about wind, sustainable energy, and their (mostly) successful attempt to live off grid.

  • A Long Way Home: A Crow Indian Boarding School Story

    21/03/2016 Duración: 04min

    Curtis Brien is principal and athletic director of Lodge Grass High School on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation. But his path to that position was long and difficult. In this episode of Mountain West Voices, he talks about the emotional and physical scars left by his four years at Indian boarding schools, and what he learned from the experience.

  • Tongue River Stories: The Music of Martha Scanlan

    11/03/2016 Duración: 04min

    This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit with singer/songwriter Martha Scanlan on the remote ranch in southeastern Montana that inspired Tongue River Stories - her album about landscape, tradition and community.

  • Elvia: A Parisian War Bride in Montana

    28/02/2016 Duración: 04min

    In this episode of "Mountain West Voices," Elvia Stockton talks about her romance with American painter Bill Stockton at the end of WWII, and her transition from Paris to the isolated Montana sheep ranch where she lived with her husband for more than 50 years.

  • Cracks In The Earth: A Montana Woman Rancher Talks Cattle And Coal

    22/02/2016 Duración: 04min

    In this episode of "Mountain West Voices," Montana rancher Ellen Pfister talks about the impact of longwall coal mining on the ranching communities of central Montana. (Broadcast: " Mountain West Voices ," 2/22/16, Mondays, 4:53 p.m., or via podcast .)

  • Little Patricia: Portrait Of A Fighter

    08/02/2016 Duración: 04min

    In this episode of Mountain West Voices, Patricia Netherland tells of the journey that took her from a successful career as an MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter - " Little Patricia Vidonic " - to her life as a single mother and successful entrepreneur in Billings, Montana.

  • The Picture Bride: From Guangdong to Montana

    24/01/2016 Duración: 04min

    This week on "Mountain West Voices:" The remarkable story of Flora Wong , a Chinese-American woman who survived the Sino-Japanese war and came to Montana as a "Picture Bride."

  • Bletchley Park: A Montana War Bride Looks Back

    28/12/2015 Duración: 04min

    In this episode of Mountain West Voices, we hear from Dulcie May Klusmann, who, as a teenager, worked as a code breaker at Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret center for breaking German codes and ciphers.

  • Finding What You're Here For: A Montana Nun In The Segregated South

    12/12/2015 Duración: 05min

    In this episode of Mountain West Voices, Lorraine Rivers Tucker recalls the journey that took her from the rough Montana copper mining town of her childhood, to a Dominican convent in Wisconsin, to Mobile, Alabama in the early 1960s.

  • I Love You Enough To Give This Knowledge To You: Teaching Cree Language

    23/11/2015 Duración: 04min

    In this episode of Mountain West Voices, we visit a remarkable language teacher at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Dorothy Thunder grew up at Little Pine First Nations Reserve in Saskatchewan, surrounded by the Plains Cree language. Today, the number of young people who speak the language is dwindling. Dorothy has dedicated her life to reversing that trend.

  • Rescuing An Orphan Bear Cub On The Montana Prairie

    16/11/2015 Duración: 05min

    In this exciting episode of Mountain West Voices, producer Clay Scott recounts the rescue of an orphaned black bear cub on the Montana prairies, miles from suitable bear habitat.

  • Pronghorn Antelope: New Obstacles To An Ancient Migration

    02/11/2015 Duración: 05min

    Pronghorn antelope make the second longest migration of any North American land animal. But their ancient migration routes are threatened by livestock fencing.

  • Afternoon Affair: A Conversation With Montana Singer-Songwriter John Dendy

    28/09/2015 Duración: 05min

    If you live in Montana, you might have seen John Dendy playing guitar in a cafe, or club, or bar. A big tall guy with an upright bass or guitar, playing songs that are a little bit out of the ordinary.

  • Scatter Their Own: Alternative Rock From The Pine Ridge Reservation

    07/09/2015 Duración: 05min

    A visit with the band Scatter Their Own from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Pine Ridge is a vast, sparsely populated reservation with the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the nation. But for Scotti, Scotti Junior and Julianna Clifford, their land and their Oglala Lakota culture are things of profound beauty to be celebrated in song.

  • Immense Power In The Quiet Calm: A Visit With Guss Yellowhair

    31/08/2015 Duración: 05min

    Guss Yellow Hair , a Lakota and Northern Cheyenne artist from South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, talks about his role as "culture bearer," and about the importance of passing on tradition through language and music. (Broadcast: " Mountain West Voices ," 8/31/15 and 1/4/16, Monday afternoons, 4:53 p.m., or via podcast .)

  • Things Of Intrinsic Worth: The Poetry Of Wally McRae

    10/08/2015 Duración: 06min

    A visit with award-winning environmentalist cowboy poet Wally McRae on his ranch in southeast Montana.

  • The Last Day Of A Good Career - Profile Of A Montana Teacher

    03/08/2015 Duración: 04min

    This week on Mountain West Voices, we visit the class of award-winning biology teacher Jim Schulz, of Helena, Montana, on his last day of teaching before he retires. (Broadcast: " Mountain West Voices ," 8/3/15, Monday afternoons, 4:53 p.m., or via podcast .)

  • Hard, Unpredictable, And Satisfying: The Life Of A Montana Ranch Hand

    20/07/2015 Duración: 05min

    Cory Caswell has worked as a hired hand on Wyoming and Montana ranches since he came west as a teenager, not staying in any one place longer than a few months. He talks about his hard, unpredictable, but satisfying life as itinerant ranch hand.

  • Strong Beliefs: A Doukhobor Life In British Columbia

    07/07/2015 Duración: 06min

    A visit with Pauline Berekoff at the Sons of Freedom Gilpin Settlement , a little known community near Grand Forks, British Columbia. The Sons of Freedom are descended from the Russian Doukhobors who came to Canada in the late 1800's, and Pauline talks about the fight to maintain her beliefs, and about her community's conflict with the Canadian government. (Broadcast: " Mountain West Voices ," 7/6/15, Monday afternoons, 4:53 p.m., or via podcast .)

  • Culture Shock: Big-City Exchange Students In A Tiny Montana School

    15/06/2015 Duración: 06min

    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 before the exchange students arrived, the high school had an enrollment of only two.