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Hidden in the Redwoods of the Pacific Northwest is a tribal land that's grappling with a crisis.

It is a beautiful place, but since my sister were missing, I just think about how many people could be missing in that river.

There's a series of unsolved disappearances spanning decades.

We looked into them.

From Tenderfoot TV, I'm Silesia Stanton.

Join me on The Vanishing Point, an up in Vanish series.

Listen for free on the Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcast. Funerals, memorials can be wrenching, sad affairs as we come to grips with the reality of loss.

But it's also true that memorials can be healing, uplifting, even joyful, gathering in community to pay respects.

I recently attended the funeral of the beloved auntie,

joining hundreds of people, friends, family I haven't seen in decades.

Some I've never seen at all to celebrate

and mourn this great woman with song,

praise, weeping, laughing, ushering her to that final rest.

And I know it sounds odd to say that a funeral was wonderful

but this funeral was wonderful.

She was wonderful. She was loved and her final gift was her own ceremony because this alchemy of mourning

this alchemy of mourning and joy and release it casts a spell giving

permission at long last for the stories to come out, people finally started talking, stories kept secret

for generations, stories I didn't know.

Funny stories. Ridiculous tales, but also stories of hurt, shame. And almost all those stories

are really stories about my grandfather.

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