Rayna D. Green

Chair, Division of Cultural History; Director, American Indian Program

National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 30712
MRC 616
Washington, D.C. 20560-0616

greenra@nmah.si.edu

Research Interests

20th century American Indian material culture and expressive culture (music, literature, photography), documentary film, American food and wine history.

Current Research Projects

Filming, documenting 20th century American winemaking and grapegrowing.

Recent Publications

Rayna Green with contributions by Melanie Fernandez.. The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America, London, GB, Bloomington, IN and Toronto, Canada: British Museum Press, Indiana University Press, Groundwood Books, 1999.

"A Modest Proposal: The Museum of the Plains White Person", in Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll, and Andrew Dubill, eds. In Our Own Words: Great Speeches of the American Century. Kodansha America, Inc. 1999.

"More Than Meets the Eye: Gertrude Kasebier’s ‘Indian’ Photographs." In Helena Wright, ed. The History of Photography , January, 1999.

Rayna Green and Howard Bass. Heartbeat II,CD/audiocassette recording. 79 minutes. Smithsonian Folkways 1998.

Rayna Green and Howard Bass, producers "Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women". CD/audiocassette recording. 79 minutes. Smithsonian Folkways 1995.

Rayna Green, Producer/Director. "From Ritual to Retail: Pueblos, Tourism and the Fred Harvey Company." 17 minute documentary short video. Produced in association with the exhibition. "Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art, 1995, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.

Rayna Green, Co-Director, artistic direction, editor. "Corn Is Who We Are: The Story of Pueblo Indian Food." 20 minute documentary short film. Produced by Alturas Films and Smithsonian Telecommunications. Winner, Silver Apple, National Educational Film Festival, 1994;

Rayna Green, Scriptwriter, artistic direction. "We Are Here: 500 Years of Pueblo Resistance." 14 minute documentary short film. Produced by Smithsonian Telecommunications, in association with the exhibition, "American Encounters", National Museum of American History. Winner, Cine Golden Eagle, 1992;

"The Pocahontas Perplex: Images of American Indian Women in American Culture," The Massachussetts Review 16 (Autumn): 698-714, reprinted in Susan Lobo and Steve Talbot. Native American Voices: A Reader. New York: Longman, 1998; previously reprinted in E. DuBois and Ruiz. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women's History. London: Routledge, Kegan and Paul, 1990; "Rosebuds of the Plateau: Frank Matsura and the Fainting Couch Aesthetic" in Lucy Lippard, ed. Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans. New York: New Press, reprinted in Dark Night: field notes (No. 15, 1999);

"Native American Women," Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society 6 (1980), reprinted in Jo Carillo, ed. Readings in Amrican Indian Law: Recalling the Rhythm of Survival. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

" 'We Never Saw These Things Before': Southwest Indian Laughter and Resistance to the Invasion of the Tse va ho." In M. Weigle and Barbara Babcock. The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway. Phoenix: The Heard Museum,1996;

"The Texture of Memory: Historical Process and Contemporary Art. In S. Cahan and Zoya Kocur. Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education. New York: Routledge and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, 1996.