Tammy Greer

Dr. Greer is citizen of the United Houma Nation and director of the Southern Miss Center for American Indian Research and Studies. She wild-tends the 1,000 square foot Southern Miss Medicine Wheel Garden that is filled with Southeastern native plants who were and are still used as tools, building materials, clothing, cordage, food, drink, dyes, pigments, weapons and medicines. Dr. Greer coordinates the yearly Southern Miss Powwow that is open to the public and allows Natives and non Natives to experience powwow culture on the campus of Southern Miss. She, currently, is working on several projects that involve waking up our sleeping Southeastern cultural traditions, including our pigment and dye, cordage and mound building traditions as well as food traditions in an effort to address health disparities among Southeastern American Indians.