Includes bibliographical reference and index.

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. Searching for Savanna confronts this history of dehumanization toward Indigenous women and the government's complicity in the crisis. It investigates these injustices and the decades-long struggle by Native American advocates for meaningful change.