Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
Written by Mona Gable
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell
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In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after she disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna’s, but Savanna’s body would not be found for days.
The horrifying crime sent shock waves far beyond Fargo, North Dakota, where it occurred, and helped expose the sexual and physical violence Native American women and girls have endured since the country’s colonization.
With pathos and compassion, Searching for Savanna confronts this history of dehumanization toward Indigenous women and the government’s complicity in the crisis. Featuring in-depth interviews, personal accounts, and trial analysis, this timely book investigates these injustices and the decades-long struggle by Native American advocates for meaningful change.
Editor's Note
Eye-opening…
Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was 22 years old and eight months pregnant when she was brutally murdered in 2017. Her case is horrific but not unique, with policymakers, law enforcement, and the media continually ignoring the dark truth. Gable’s true crime account is an eye-opening reckoning with the epidemic of violence against Native women — and a call to action for systemic change.
Mona Gable
Gable writes about women’s issues, health, science, travel, and international issues. Her work has appeared in Prevention, Fast Company, Los Angeles magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Pacific Standard, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. From 2011 to 2013, she was the feminist editor of BlogHer.com and has been a contributor to the Huffington Post since 2006. Her essays have appeared in several anthologies, including “The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change” and the bestselling collection of Salon essays, “Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood.” She is also a facilitator with the OpEd Project, a venture aimed at increasing the range of voices shaping public opinion. Visit her at Blogher.com/member/monag or follow her on Twitter @monalgable.
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