Mary Kathryn Nagle is a playwright and an attorney specializing in tribal sovereignty of Native nations and peoples.
She wrote a brief which cited the ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act) to keep a young Native girl from being taken away from her birth-father and being adopted by a white family.
[5] Nagle is an alumna of the 2013 Emerging Writers Group, a prestigious program supported by The Public Theater for up-and-coming playwrights.
[6][7] Sliver of a Full Moon is one of her most successful works to date, having been performed at the Church Center of the United Nations and various law schools across the country, including Yale,[8] Harvard,[9] NYU,[10] and Stanford.
They were both involved with the drafting of treaties with the United States in an attempt to protect Cherokee rights in the era of Indian removal.