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A Doctor among the Oglala Sioux Tribe - The Letters of Robert H. Ruby, 1953-1954 (Hardcover)
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A Doctor among the Oglala Sioux Tribe - The Letters of Robert H. Ruby, 1953-1954 (Hardcover)
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In 1953 young surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief
medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his
sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau
of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life on the
reservation. Ruby and his wife were active in the social life of
the non-white community, which allowed Ruby, also a self-trained
ethnographer, to write in detail about the Oglala Lakota people and
their culture, covering topics such as religion, art, traditions,
and values. His frank and personal depiction of conditions he
encountered on the reservation examines poverty, alcoholism, the
educational system, and employment conditions and opportunities.
Ruby also wrote critically of the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
describing the bureaucracy that made it difficult for him to do his
job and kept his hospital permanently understaffed and
undersupplied. These engaging letters provide a compelling memoir
of life at Pine Ridge in the mid-1950s.
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