Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960

Faculty Feature

In Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960, Liza Black presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experiences of Native actors on the sets of midcentury Hollywood Westerns. This behind-the-scenes look at costuming, makeup, contract negotiations, and union disparities uncovers an all-too-familiar narrative of racism and further complicates filmmakers' choices to follow mainstream representations of "Indianness".

Robin Nokes

Undergraduate Feature

Robin is an Indiana University-Bloomington sophomore from Jeffersonville, Indiana, majoring in English, history, and sociology. Robin is pictured here at the Oscar Wilde monument in Dublin, Ireland. 

"The value of a history major comes in its incredible power to provide context for the world we live in today. In the world of fake news, being able to work efficiently with primary sources is a skill that cannot be undervalued."

Sarah Rowley

Graduate Alumni Feature

IU History Ph.D. Sarah B. Rowley (2015) recently published an editorial in the Washington Post's "Made In History" series entitled "America might be ready for Kamala Harris’s husband to be second gentleman". Dr. Rowley is an assistant professor of history at DePauw University. She is the author of "Married Congresswomen and the New Breed of Political Husbands in 1970s Political Culture," in "Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920" (Johns Hopkins University Press).