A key committee has approved and sent to the U-S Senate floor a bill named for Savanna Greywind, murdered in 2017 by a neighbor who cut Greywind’s baby from her womb. Senator Tina Smith says “Savanna’s Act” and another bill called the “Not Invisible Act” will improve data collection and coordinate efforts to prevent violent crime in Native communities. Smith says the number of missing and murdered indigenous women has reached crisis proportions in the U-S. She points to a missing woman, 32-year-old Olivia Lone Bear, whose body was found strapped into the passenger seat of a truck that was submerged in a North Dakota lake.