Native women advocates are bringing an acclaimed play about domestic violence in Indian Country to the U.S. Capitol. Sliver of a Full Moon details the decade-long fight to restore tribal authority over non-Indian domestic violence offenders. The play depicts the Native women, and two Native men supporters, who made S.47, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which became law just a year ago, a reality. “To all our Native sisters throughout Indian Country, we have given a decade of our lives’ work—and this could not have been done without all of you. We hold a sacred trust as sovereign Native women to our people," Juana Majel Dixon, the co-chair of the Task Force on Violence Against Women for the National Congress of American Indians said in a press release marking the one-year anniversary of VAWA. Majel Dixon is one of the women depicted in the play. Other key characters include Terri Henry, a council member for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. “VAWA 2013 is a tremendous victory. I am grateful to those who have stepped up to take the lead in the implementation phase,” Henry said in the press release. The play will be presented in Room HC5 at the US Capitol on Tuesday at 7pm.
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