![]() ![]() ![]() Her body was recovered from the Red River days later. Savanna was eight months pregnant when she disappeared after helping her upstairs neighbor with a sewing project. chronicles the devastation of her family and her community. Gable has been writing about gendered violence for many years, and her nonfiction account of the kidnapping and murder of just one of these women - 22-year-old Savanna Lafontaine-Greywind of Fargo, N.D. The real number could be far higher, and of one thing there is no doubt: The attention paid to this decades-long tragedy is far lower than it should be. “No one knows how many Native American women and girls are missing and murdered each year.” That is the shocking first sentence of Mona Gable’s new book, “ Searching for Savanna.” A recent report in The Times, focusing on killings in Northern California that had prompted Round Valley Indian Tribes to declare a state of emergency, cited a federal estimate of 4,200 unsolved cases. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]() 'Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many' ![]()
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