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🗓️ 20 March 2025
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Part two of our coverage of the disappearance and death of Matthew Rattlesnake Grant, whose family has been seeking justice since 2016. Matthew disappeared and was murdered on the Blackfeet Nation Reservation in December of 2016. His family in the United States and Canada now push for media coverage of missing and murdered Natives as part of the MMIP movement and for arrests in Matthew's case.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Matthew Rattlesnake Grant, please contact (801) 579-1400. There is a 10,000-dollar reward available in Matthew's case.
Season 21 focuses on family advocates and the effects of the MMIP— missing and murdered Indigenous people— crisis in the United States.
Blackfeet Nation MMIP Website: https://www.blackfeetmmip.org/
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| 0:00.0 | In May of 2023, we released two episodes covering the unsolved murder of Matthew Rattlesnake Grant. |
| 0:06.8 | That's when we first began working with his aunt, Rhonda Grant Connolly, who has since gone on to begin the Blackfeet Nation MMP organization, and who has connected us with families over the past two years. |
| 0:18.9 | Matthew was killed in December of 2016. As the case enters its ninth |
| 0:23.1 | year, Ronda has been working with law enforcement to finally hold Matthew's murderers responsible, |
| 0:28.7 | in the hopes of bringing in any new information, especially from people who might not have |
| 0:34.1 | been ready to speak in 2016, but who are now willing to help Matthews family. |
| 0:38.8 | We are re-airing both his episodes. There is a $10,000 reward available in Matthew's case. |
| 0:45.4 | As you re-listen to his episodes, please take a moment to share the reward poster available |
| 0:50.6 | on our social media. As Rhonda said, if you know something, say something. |
| 0:56.1 | You can follow the work that she's doing with Blackfeet MMPIP on Facebook. |
| 1:00.4 | We've included links in our show notes. |
| 1:03.2 | This is part two of a two-part series. |
| 1:06.0 | Please listen to part one before continuing with this episode. |
| 1:09.7 | This series contains discussion of suicide, homicide, crime scenes, and violence. |
| 1:15.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:32.7 | This This is the fall line. |
| 1:48.9 | Last time on the fall line, we began our coverage of the 2016 disappearance and murder of Matthew Rattlesnake Grant. |
| 1:53.4 | Matthew's aunt, Rhonda Grant Connolly, told us about his childhood. |
| 1:58.0 | Matthew was the first-born child of Ray Grant and Eileen Rattlesnake, and they'd go on to have two children together before ending their |
| 2:01.2 | relationship while Matthew and his sister Cheyenne were still young. Though Matthew lived the majority of |
| 2:06.9 | his time in Alberta, Canada, with his mother and his younger siblings, he also spent a significant |
| 2:12.4 | portion of his childhood in Browning, Montana, with his father Ray Grant's relatives. That connection was important |
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