This holiday week on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,

the fall line is re-releasing one of our most powerful series

and one we get the most feedback on from our listeners.

Our three episode coverage of Carolyn

Ford's work on the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women,

girls and relatives in the United States and Canada and the story of her own

mother who was counted among them.

Carolyn's mother, Leona Kinsey, disappeared in 1999 in La Grande, Oregon.

Carolyn's search for her mother has continued even as she's worked to help countless other families,

both in her official role in the Puyallup tribe, through her advocacy group,

missing and murdered Native Americans, and via supporting legislation at the state and federal levels.

Trust us, you won't want to miss Carolyn's story or Lionas.

These are really powerful episodes. This is the fall line.

The fall line. This week we continue the story of Leona Leclare Kinsie and Carolyn de Ford, a missing mother and a daughter who was

grown up to become an advocate for the missing and murdered, both online, through her Facebook group,

and through her legislative work for missing and murdered

indigenous women and girls.

When we left off last time, Carolyn's story had carried us through her childhood and into the complex relationship she and Leona had in her adolescence

They were incredibly close and there was so much she admired about her mother, her talent, her independence, her strength, her eye for artistic

design, and her humor.

But her mother's struggles with addiction had been a strain too, Carolyn sometimes offended for herself when

Leona was in jail. She blamed her mother for the breakup of Leona's marriage

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