Liza Black at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store and the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights welcome Liza Black —associate professor of history and of Native American and Indigenous studies at Indiana University and author of Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960 —for a discussion of her new book, How Settlers Get Away with Murder: The Killing of Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit People in the Americas. About How Settlers Get Away With Murder A forensic history of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people crisis that unmasks the Americas’ oldest and most relentless crime: Native genocide. Since the arrival of Columbus, thousands of perpetrators have gotten away with murder, burying evidence of their crimes in police reports and court testimony. How Settlers Get Away with Murder unearths that hidden evidence to expose the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people (MMIW2S). Historian and citizen of Cherokee Nation Liza Black examines 5 cases in Canada, the US, and Mexico, from 1908 to 2017. Rejecting narratives that blame victims’ poverty or trauma, Black dissects police files, coroners’ reports, and court records to uncover a harsh…