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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About this audiobook
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
Mona Gable is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Outside, AFAR, the Los Angeles Times, and many others. Her article in Los Angeles magazine, “The Hugo Problem,” was named a Longreads Best of 2015. Find out more at Mona-Gable.com.
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