Doctor among the Oglala Sioux Tribe

Description:

"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."--Inside jacket.

subjects: Correspondence,  Social life and customs,  Physicians,  Whites,  Community life,  Pine Ridge Indian Hospital (S.D.),  Oglala Indians,  Medical care,  History,  Indians of north america, west (u.s.),  Indians of north america, social life and customs,  Medical care, united states,  Physicians, correspondence,  White people,  Collected Correspondence,  Culture,  Delivery of Health Care,  History, 20th Century,  North American Indians,  Socioeconomic Factors

People: Robert H. Ruby

Places: South Dakota Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation,  South Dakota,  Nebraska,  Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

Times: 20th century