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This book is necessary reading to anyone interested in studying Native American visual representation. -Steve Pelletier, American Indian Culture and Research Journal In both method and content, this book charts a new movement in Indigenous film studies in particular and film studies in general. It is welcome, indeed. -Jennifer L. Jenkins, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Meticulously researched, this engrossing volume files a deep void in both film studies and Native American history. -Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine Liza Black systematically studies Indian characters in the Hollywood films of the l940s and l950s and shows how film created a single type of Indian for Native and non-Native actors, though the latter often received higher pay. Black disables this construct, and she offers a stunning history of the experiences of Native American actors who worked in the film industry during these years. -Lisbeth Haas, author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California Liza Black's exhaustively researched study of American Indian actors fills a gap in scholarship on Native American performance by focusing on the most influential and damaging period for Hollywood's representations of Native peoples. Highlighting their efforts to make a living in the film industry and negotiate its expectations, Black powerfully demonstrates Native people's survival and agency, as well as the ways popular culture created and abetted narratives that continue to support indigenous erasure and dispossession. -Nicolas G. Rosenthal, author of Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

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​Liza Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles and an associate professor of history and Native American and Indigenous studies at Indiana University.

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