When the senate votes, VAWA receives 68 votes, thus securing a super-majority and is passed, but with an exception for Alaskan tribes.
#THE MOON SLIVER SERIES#
A series of conversations with several politicians (including Lisa Murkowski, Scott Brown, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, and other senators and their staffers) depicts their progress campaigning for support for the bill and attempting to maintain the bill in its entirety. A group of survivors echoes similar stories, citing Oliphant as the reason for the jurisdiction issues.ĭennis and Terri meet at a Tribal Council meeting in Cherokee, North Carolina and they discuss strategies to pass the 2005 version of VAWA. Dennis reluctantly informs him that he has no jurisdiction over non-natives. Interviews of Lynn Hootch and Diane Millich lead into a narrative of a white man calling the police and informing Dennis that he had just beaten his wife.
Terri is continually confronted with her coworkers' ostensible disillusionment and apathy about domestic violence on Indian reservations. An interview with Billie Jo Rich transitions to the next scene, in which Dennis, a police man on a reservation, gives a protective order form to a non-native man who had just beaten his wife. Terri is the only Indian in the office, which as the DOJ Woman mentions, frequently works with Indian tribes. A narrative then begins as Terri Henry begins her job at the Department of Justice. Following a brief intro by several characters, the scene changes to an interview of Lisa Brunner from March 2013. A chorus of characters excitedly counts as they watch votes coming in on C-SPAN. The play begins with a recitation of the story Blackfish as told by Emily Johnson from the character of Emily (played by Lynn Hootch).
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