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Searching for Savanna : the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many
Title:
Searching for Savanna : the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many
Author:
Gable, Mona, author.
ISBN:
9781982153687
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
xiv, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Without a trace -- That awful woman -- Awareness -- Savanna -- Keep the Greywinds out -- Too beautiful for Earth -- Conflicting accounts -- Brooke -- Tears of joy -- December -- The hearing -- Eleven weeks -- A poem -- Walking in ancestral lands -- Tillie Black Bear -- Birthday -- The prosecutors -- Fort Berthold -- Savanna and Ashton -- Trust -- Mama -- Memorial -- William -- Fargo -- I had hope -- The detectives -- Day three -- Day four -- That girl -- The sentence -- Red dresses -- A baby -- What remains -- Spirit lake -- The blue building -- There isn't a day -- August.
Abstract:
"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, Searching for Savanna investigates these injustices and the decades-long struggle by Native American advocates for meaningful change."--Amazon.com