Adriana Greci Green

Adriana Greci Green earned her doctorate in anthropology with a specialization in Native American studies from Rutgers University (2001). Her fields of interest include art and material culture; cultural performance; the representation of Native Americans in museums and popular culture; issues of repatriation; ethnohistory; museum and heritage studies; and the cultural and material expressions of sovereignty and treaties. Her areas of specialization are the Plains and Great Lakes regions, and she has expertise in museum and exhibition practices.

Adriana's doctoral work focused on Lakota cultural performances at Rosebud and Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and innovatively used ethnographic, collections and archival research on art and clothing to examine how dances and celebrations in the early reservation period offered Lakota people an opportunity to resist the colonial system and maintain a sense of their own identity. More recently, she has been working with Odawa and Ojibwa artists in Michigan and Ontario, documenting Anishinaabe quill work on birchbark, both historically and today. She is collecting oral histories of artists and developing a formal analysis of this art form.

Adriana has served as executive director of the Nokomis Native American Learning Center in Okemos, Mich.  She organized educational programs and exhibitions on Michigan Native arts and traditions and led a project developing a standards-based curriculum to help middle school teachers and students understand the concept of sovereignty and the history of treaty negotiations in Michigan . Previously, she taught at Michigan State University, Seton Hall University and Rutgers University .

Contact Adriana:
E-mail: agreen@nmu.edu
Phone: 906-227-2374
Office: 112C Whitman Hall

Winter 2009  syllabi:
NAS 204-03: Native American Experience

NAS 204-05 Native American Experience