Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Ruby, Robert H.

Title Doctor among the Oglala Sioux Tribe : the letters of Robert H. Ruby, 1953-1954 / Robert H. Ruby ; edited and with an introduction by Cary C. Collins and Charles V. Mutschler
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (lxx, 366 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction: The deadliest war -- Timeline of selected events in the life of Robert H. Ruby, MD -- Editors' comment on editorial methodology -- August 1953 -- September 1953 -- October 1953 -- November 1953 -- December 1953 -- January 1954 -- February 1954 -- March 1954 -- April 1954 -- May 1954 -- June 1954 -- July 1954 -- August 1954 -- September 1954 -- October 1954 -- November 1954 -- December 1954 -- Editors' postscript -- Appendix
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-349) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
English
Print version record
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Ruby, Robert H. -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Ruby, Robert H. -- Correspondence
Ruby, Robert H
Ruby, Robert H. fast
Subject Pine Ridge Indian Hospital (S.D.) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Pine Ridge Indian Hospital (S.D.)
Pine Ridge Indian Hospital (S.D.) fast
Subject Oglala Indians -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Community life -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- History -- 20th century
Oglala Indians -- Medical care -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- History -- 20th century
Physicians -- Nebraska -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Correspondence
White people -- Nebraska -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Correspondence
Physicians.
Indians of North America.
Medical care.
Culture.
Medicine -- History -- 20th century
Physicians
Indians, North American
Delivery of Health Care
Culture
Socioeconomic Factors
History, 20th Century
Patient Care
physicians.
culture note.
culture (concept)
HISTORY -- State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
Medicine
Medical care
Indians of North America
Culture
Community life
Oglala Indians -- Social life and customs
Physicians
White people
SUBJECT Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota -- History -- 20th century
South Dakota
Nebraska
Subject Oglala Sioux Tribe
South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
personal correspondence.
Correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Form Electronic book
Author Collins, Cary C., 1961-
Mutschler, Chas. V. (Charles Vincent), 1955-
LC no. 2009039102
ISBN 9780803230064
0803230060