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MPR News host Tom Weber talked with North Dakota 

 about her legislation to address the problem of missing and murdered Native American women and girls. 

 after Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, the native woman from Fargo who was eight months pregnant when she was murdered.

Heitkamp is concerned that last year North Dakota had 125 reported cases of missing Native women, according to the National Crime Information Center. More than 5,700 were reported missing nationwide.

To listen to their conversation click the audio player above.

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MPR News host Tom Weber talked with North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp about her legislation to address the problem of missing and murdered Native American women and girls.

The U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee recently held a hearing on "Savanna's Act" -- a bill that North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp introduced to help address the problem of missing and murdered Native women. Sen. Heitkamp is concerned that last year North Dakota had 125 reported cases of missing Native women, according to the National Crime Information Center. More than 5,700 were reported missing nationwide. Sen. Heitkamp talks to MPR News host Tom Weber about the bill and her efforts to halt the crisis of missing and murdered Native women.

North Dakota Sen. Heitkamp on 'Savanna's Act'

A memorial is set up at the Fargo apartment building where Greywind lived.

North Dakota Sen. Heitkamp on 'Savanna's Act'

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