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    Mary Kathryn Nagle - Wikipedia

    • Mary Kathryn Nagle is a playwright and an attorney specializing in tribal sovereignty of Native nations and peoples. She was born in Oklahoma City, OK, and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She previously served as the executive director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) from 2015 to 2019. … See more

    Education and career

    Mary Kathryn Nagle received her bachelor's degree in Justice and Peace Studies from Georgetown University, … See more

    BornOklahoma City
    Alma materGeorgetown University · Tulane University
    OccupationLawyer, Playwright
    Family

    Nagle's grandmother, Frances Polson, was a Cherokee woman, and her grandfather, Dr. Patrick Sarsfield Nagle II, was an Irish man and the son of the leader of the Oklahoma Socialist Party. The couple were forced to el… See more

    Plays

    • Katrina Stories (2008)
    • Welcome to Chalmette (2008)
    • Waaxe's Law (2009)
    • To the 7th Degree (2009)… See more

    Mary Kathryn Nagle Changes the Story, in Court and Onstage
    The New Yorker
    External links

    • September 21, 2014 production of Sliver of a Full Moon See more

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  1. NIWRC
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    Mary Kathryn Nagle - NIWRC

    Mary Kathryn Nagle is an attorney specializing in federal Indian law and appellate litigation. Nagle co-authored (with Sarah Deer) and filed an amicus brief in Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on behalf of the …

  2. The New Yorker
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    Mary Kathryn Nagle Changes the Story, in Court and …

    Apr 8, 2021 · Daniel Pollack-Pelzner profiles Mary Kathryn Nagle, one of the leading lawyers advocating for tribal sovereignty, and one of the country’s most-produced Native playwrights.

  3. OPB
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    Feds shrug off responsibility for BIA officer who raped …

    Jun 6, 2024 · A Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer pleaded guilty in a criminal case arising from his rape of a woman who had called for his help. …

    • New York Times
      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/thea…

      Fighting for Native Americans, in Court and Onstage

      Jan 17, 2018 · In her new play “Sovereignty,” Mary Kathryn Nagle brings together her legal activism and her family history.

    • yale.edu
      https://wff.yale.edu/.../mary-kathryn-nagle

      Mary Kathryn Nagle | Women Faculty Forum - Yale …

      Mary Kathryn Nagle is a Cherokee lawyer who advocates for Native sovereignty and a playwright who explores Native stories. She has argued before the Supreme Court and written plays such as "Sovereignty" and "Crossing Mnisose".

    • New York Times
      https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/thea…

      ‘Manahatta,’ Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Play About the …

      Nov 24, 2023 · Mary Kathryn Nagle moved to Manhattan in 2010. Back then, she would often run to work along a path that skirted the East River, absorbing the city and its history from the shoreline. “I...

    • Northwestern University Press
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      "Sovereignty: A Play" and a landmark legal decision for …

      Jul 14, 2020 · In her 2018 play, Sovereignty, Native American lawyer and playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle dramatized many of the exact issues that McGirt v. Oklahoma addressed. Below is a scene from her play.

    • Washington Life Magazine
      https://washingtonlife.com/2018/02/13/in…

      Interview: ‘Sovereignty’ Playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle

      Feb 13, 2018 · Interview: ‘Sovereignty’ Playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle. written by Erica Moody February 13, 2018. Her political play, part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, addresses violence against Native women.

    • Ms. Foundation For Women
      https://forwomen.org/staff/mary-kathryn-nagle

      Mary Kathryn Nagle - Ms. Foundation For Women