The Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center's STAR (small, tribal, and rural) Justice Series highlights criminal justice issues that impact STAR communities across the United States.

Restoring Native Safety, Self-Determination, and Tribal Sovereignty

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Presenters:

Mary Kathryn Nagle, Partner, Pipestem and Nagle Law, P.C., Enrolled Citizen of the Cherokee Nation

Facilitated by Professor Pamela Metzger, Director, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, SMU Dedman School of Law

Ms. Nagle discusses the right of Native women to be safe in their own homes and explains why advocates for Native women are focused on restoring tribal sovereignty. For Native women in the United States, tribal sovereignty and personal safety are inextricably linked. Police failures to investigate and solve the cases of missing and murdered Native women and girls inflict their own violence on already marginalized Native communities. And when Native women are raped and murdered in their own homes, their local governments lack the power to prosecute their assailants. Drawing on her legal background, Ms. Nagle argues that tribal jurisdiction must include the right to prosecute violent crimes committed against Native women on Native land.

Speaker Biography: 

Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is also a partner at Pipestem and Nagle Law, P.C., where she works to protect tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. From 2015 to 2019, she served as the first Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program. Nagle is an alum of the 2013 Public Theater Emerging Writers Program. Productions include Miss Lead (Amerinda, 59E59), Fairly Traceable (Native Voices at the Autry), Sovereignty (Arena Stage), Manahatta (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Return to Niobrara (Rose Theater), and Crossing Mnisose (Portland Center Stage), Sovereignty (Marin Theatre Company), and Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theatre). She has received commissions from Arena Stage, the Rose Theater (Omaha, Nebraska), Portland Center Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Yale Repertory Theatre, Round House Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Theater.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. 

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