Sa’wade December Birdinground, a 13-year-old Indigenous girl, was last seen at her family’s home in Garryowen on the Crow Reservation after 11:00 p.m. on October 6, 2024. When family members went to wake her the next morning she was gone. The circumstances of her disappearance remain unclear and she has not been heard from since.

She is described as 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 5 inches tall, 130 to 140 pounds, with brown curly hair and brown eyes. At the time she was last seen she wore a black hoodie with mushrooms, an anime t-shirt, basketball shorts and purple slip-on Skechers. She may have had a black and purple Adidas backpack and is known to wear an elk tooth necklace.

An extensive local search using sniffer dogs, a helicopter, drones, mounted searchers and many community volunteers found no trace. The FBI, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office are jointly investigating; Sa’wade’s phone was given to law enforcement but produced no useful clues. The FBI and the Crow Tribe are offering a combined $10,000 reward for information leading to her recovery. Her family say this disappearance is out of character and her father believes she was abducted.

If anyone has information about Sa’wade’s whereabouts or saw her on the night of October 6, please come forward with what you know.