Ed Smith Oral History
Title
Ed Smith Oral History
Subject
Osage Nation
Colonialism
Spiritual traditions
Boarding schools
Removal and relocation
Native American
Cultural revitalizaiton
Description
Oral history with Ed Smith conducted by Nicki Joy Karstens in Lawrence, Kansas in November 2018. This interview is conducted with Ed Smith, a member of the Osage Nation. Beason discusses the impacts of colonialism, including removal and the boarding school system, on Osage spiritual practices as well as current language and cultural revitalization movements in the Osage Nation. This interview was conducted for the Religion in Kansas Project as part of semester-long internship with the University of Kansas Department of Religious Studies.
Source
Religion in Kansas Project
Publisher
Department of Religious Studies, University of Kansas
Date
November 2018
Contributor
Oral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the University of Kansas.
Rights
All oral histories in the Religion in Kansas Project are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License.
Format
.wav
Language
en_US
Type
Recording, oral
Identifier
Ed_Smith-Interview.wav
Original Format
Interview
Duration
00:46:37
Transcription
Interviewer
Nicki Joy Karstens
Interviewee
Ed Smith
Collection
Citation
“Ed Smith Oral History,” Religion in Kansas Project, accessed June 23, 2025, https://ksreligion.omeka.net/items/show/4396.