Books by Robert H. Ruby

This biography situates Chief Moses of the Columbias in the opening of the Northwest and subsequent Indian-white relations, between 1850 and 1898. He held his tribe at peace and resisted the call to arms of his friend Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces.

In 1953 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. These engaging letters provide a compelling memoir of life at Pine Ridge in the mid-1950s.

Presents the folklore and history of the Oglala Sioux by Ruby, who worked with the tribe while serving as a US Public Health Service doctor for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.