The story of what happened to Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind is both uniquely hers, and one shared by too many Indigenous women. When author and journalist Mona Gable began writing about LaFontaine-Gr…
Mona Gable, author of “Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many,” will discuss her book at the Point Loma/Hervey Library on Dec. 2. The story of what happened to Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind is both uniquely hers, and one shared by too many Indigenous women. When author and journalistbegan writing about LaFontaine-Greywind, she learned that violence against Native American women is a widespread problem that has persisted for centuries.
Gable, who grew up in Point Loma and now lives in Los Angeles, has been writing about social justice issues, gender, conservation, health, science and other topics for about 30 years and her work as appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and other publications. She’ll discuss “Searching for Savanna” at 6:30 p.m.
When Native American women were abused or victims of violence by men in their tribe, there was a system that was set up in tribes, they had their own system of justice to deal with violence against women. That was something that that happened very quickly. Tillie would actually talk about how a man would be told to go over the hill, for example, if he had been abusing someone. would banish the .
just been so ingrained, and it’s been going on for so long. Change is really slow and it depends on the administration. I mean, the only reason the Not Invisible commission happened was because Deb Haaland, our interior secretary, when she was a Democratic representative in New Mexico, this was her big issue, missing and murdered Indigenous women.
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