In this true-crime saga, Gable chronicles one Indigenous woman’s brutal murder while exploring entrenched violence against Native women.
On some reservations, Native American women are murdered at more than 10 times the national average.
In an effort to reclaim some of the heritage that hadn’t been much talked about in her family, Gable says she “was just looking for Native American stories. I felt like my own education was really just wretched in terms of what we learned in California public schools about Native American tribes.” She began researching the story over the phone: “I started calling people who were connected to the case, including the two female prosecutors who were really incredible. They were really fighting hard to see that Savanna got justice in the court system,” says Gable.
“They organized, like many Native American families end up having to do, because the police did not find her. They organized all these searches for her in Fargo and tribes from all over the Plains came to help. But also what was really fascinating to me was that the whole community in Fargo – which is a very small town and everybody kind of knows each other – all rallied behind the family, too.”
Beyond the compelling story, by illuminating the problem of murdered and disappeared Native American women and their communities’ efforts to stop it, “Searching for Savanna” also takes on the true-crime narrative, which critics of the genre have called out for too often being exclusively centered around White victims and White law enforcement.
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