Victoria Smith

Victoria AndersonOxendine Smith (vsmith4@unl.edu) earned her B.A. in History at the University of Arizona in 1992 and an M.A. in the American Indian Studies Program at UA in 1995. She went onto receive her PH.D. in History at Arizona State University in 2002. She arrived at the University of Nebraska in 2001, and accepted a position as Assistant Professor in 2002.

Professor Smith is a 19th century Native American historian. Her areas of concentration concern what some have termed "marginal" Indians, as contrasted with tribal histories. Professor Smith is interested in Native Americans who were often found on the front edge of colliding cultures. For example, she has a long-standing interest in Indian scouts and police, Indian captives, intermarried Indians, as well as mixed-blood Indian histories. Professor Smith's first book, a collaboration with Mr. Hollis Stabler, is entitled No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier (Nebraska Press, 2005). Her second book, Captive Arizona: Indian Captives and Captive Indians in Arizona Territory, 1850-1912 is under contract with the Nebraska Press and will be forthcoming in late 2007. Professor Smith is currently the faculty advisor for the University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange (UNITE), as well as the Edgerton Junior Faculty Chair. Professor Smith is a Cherokee and Delaware descendant.