2022/05/11 by Dulba-Barnett, Anna
paper · doi:10.34762/apxg-3g49
In this article, I analyse the work of two Native playwrights: Kathryn Mary Nagle’s (Cherokee) Sliver of a Full Moon and Marie Clements’ (Metis/Dene) Tombs of the Vanishing Indian. I trace how these two women use the stage as a space for portraying embodied, historic, gendered violence, like rape, forced sterilization, and the disruption of family relationships. In addition, Nagle and Clements also perform possible worlds into being where Native women lead their communities toward healing and restoration.