The personal and the political are one and the same in this deeply moving, daring drama from Native Oklahoma playwright and lawyer Mary Kathryn Nagle. "Sovereignty" splits its time in two parallel, deeply connected timelines: the early 1830s in Cherokee Nation, and present-day Oklahoma. In the first, tensions rise as Andrew Jackson’s White House threatens to remove the Cherokee from their land; in the second, Sarah Polson must confront her past in her work as a young Cherokee lawyer fighting for the restoration and preservation of her Nation’s inherent jurisdiction.