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Liza Black

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Liza Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and Associate Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Indiana University. Her work exposes how settler colonialism operates through cultural erasure, racialized labor systems, and state-sanctioned violence against Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people.

As a 2024-25 Racial Justice Fellow at Harvard University, Black investigated how institutions normalize Indigenous disposability. How Settlers Get Away with Murder (Beacon Press, 2026) demonstrates how North America's crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women reflects colonial systems functioning exactly as designed. Through forensic analysis of police records, court documents, and survivor testimonies, Black documents how settler law harms Indigenous communities.

Her first book, Picturing Indians (2020), uncovered how midcentury Hollywood exploited Native actors while systematically erasing their modernity. Drawing on payroll records and oral histories, she reveals how Indigenous performers negotiated the commodification of "Indianness" to assert agency within oppressive systems.

The recipient of prestigious fellowships from Cherokee Nation, Cornell, UCLA, and the Ford Foundation, Black's research bridges academic and public spheres. Her work has been featured in NPR, PBS, and El País, and she serves on numerous organizations advancing justice.
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