Black authored a number of articles and a book on Heiltsuk and Nuu-chah-nulth art,[1] and issues related to repatriation outside of the treaty process.
[4] As she wrote: "The Royal Ontario Museum holds a major but little-known collection of Northwest coast native art and artifacts acquired by the Reverend Dr. Richard Whitfield Large at Bella Bella, British Columbia between 1899 and 1906.
[5]Black undertook a study of the collection in her 1997 book Bella Bella: A Season of Heiltsuk Art and worked with the Heiltsuk to produce an art exhibit based on the collection with a number of contemporary pieces.
A collaborative exhibit, it contained a combination of historical works from the Royal Ontario Museum's R.W.
[citation needed] Black curated a number of exhibitions at the Royal British Columbia Museum, including Nłuut’iksa Łagigyedm Ts’msyeen: Treasures of the Tsimshian from the Dundas Collection (2007), Huupukwanum · Tupaat: Out of the Mist, Treasures of the Nuu-chah-nulth Chiefs (1999), Nisga’a: People of the Nass River (2001) and Argillite: A Haida Art (2001), and was co-curator of the Royal Ontario Museum's travelling exhibition, Kaxlaya Gvilas: "the ones who uphold the laws of our ancestors" (2000).