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StoryCorps Northwest: Puyallap Tribe Member Remembers Mother’s Disappearance 20 Years Later

By NPR News March 29, 2019

Carolyn DeFord poses with her mother and daughter in La Grande, Oregon in their last photograph together before Leona disappeared in 1999. Courtesy of Carolyn DeFord

It's been 20 years since Carolyn DeFord, a member of the Puyallup tribe, last saw her mother, Leona Kinsey in La Grande, Ore. DeFord was raised by Kinsey in La Grande. She remembers her mother as independent and self-sufficient, working odd jobs to scrape by. Read More

September Focus: The Internment Of Japanese-Americans

By Gillian Coldsnow September 1, 2018

San Bruno, CA, 29 April 1942: This assembly center has been open for two days. Bus-load after bus-load of evacuated persons of Japanese ancestry are arriving on this day after going through the necessary procedures, they are guided to the quarters assigned to them in the barracks. CREDIT: DOROTHEA LANGE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Every September more than a million people go to the Washington State Fair -- oblivious that the Puyallup fairgrounds site was where people of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and incarcerated during WWII. Continue Reading September Focus: The Internment Read More

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