She is Curator Emerita, in the Division of Cultural and Community Life at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
She undertook a Ph.D. in Folklore and American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, which she completed in 1973.
[8] Green was involved as scriptwriter and director of three documentary short films on Pueblo life and culture: We Are Here: 500 Years of Pueblo Resistance (1992), which was awarded the Ciné Golden Eagle, in 1992; Corn Is Who We Are: The Story of Pueblo Indian Food (1995) which was awarded the Silver Apple, National Educational Film Festival, in 1995 and From Ritual to Retail: Pueblos, Tourism, and the Fred Harvey Company (1995), which was produced to tie in with the exhibition, Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art.
[11] Green has written or edited four books (Native American Women: A Contextual Bibliography (1983); That’s What She Said: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry By Native American Women (editor, 1984); Women in American Indian Society (1992); The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America (1999) and is also the author of many academic articles.
[1] In 2008, she was Leman Brady Professor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.