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The Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) presents Sliver of a Full Moon, a play commemorating the passage of the tribal justice provisions of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013.
The Honorable Judge Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will offer introductory remarks. We are also honored to be joined by Lynn Malerba, Chief of the Mohegan Tribe; Deborah Parker, Vice Chairwoman of the Tulalip Tribes; and Terri Henry, Chairwoman of the Eastern Band of Cherokee.
American Indian and Alaska Native women face proportionally higher levels of violence than any other group of women in the United States. Sliver of a Full Moon follows the story of five Native women and two Native men who worked to restore tribal criminal jurisdiction over non-Native perpetrators of domestic violence on tribal lands in the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. While celebrating this historic victory, Sliver of a Full Moon also emphasizes that this solution is narrow. Consequently the play asks: what will it take to restore the jurisdiction of all tribes to protect the lives of all Native women?
The cast features three of the courageous Native women who stepped forward publicly in 2013 to share their stories of survival and abuse with members of Congress: Diane Millich (Southern Ute), Lisa Brunner (White Earth Ojibwe), and Billie Jo Rich (Eastern Band of Cherokee). The cast also includes students from the Native community at Yale.
Read more about the play and the 2013 VAWA reauthorization at: www.sliverofafullmoon.org.
CO-SPONSORS
NALSA is very grateful to our generous co-sponsors. This production would not be possible without their support.
American Constitution Society; Asian Pacific American Law Students Association; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program; Graduate and Professional Student Senate; Law Students for Reproductive Justice; Lillian Goldman Law Library; Yale Native American Cultural Center; Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights; OutLaws; Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice; Temporary Restraining Order Project; Themis; Vice Provost for Diversity; Women of Color Collective; Yale Group for the Study of Native America - YGSNA; Yale Law Journal; Yale Law Women; Zelia & Oscar Ruebhausen/Debevoise & Plimpton Student Fund.
We are also grateful to our national co-sponsors:
Amnesty International USA, Indian Law Resource Center, National Congress of American Indians, National Indigenous Women's Resource Center
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