The Oglala Sioux by Ruby, Robert H - 1955

Bison Books, 2010. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

Vantage Press, New York, 1955. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. 115 p. written by a former physcian on the Pine Ridge Reservation, this volume privates valuable insights into Native American religions, including the Peyote Way.

New York: Vantage Press, 1955. First edition. Inscribed by the author ("With the best wishes of Robert H. Ruby"). Octavo. 115, [1] pp. plus 2 pp. of photographic illustrations of tribe members. Publisher's aqua cloth. In the original dust jacket (tear to upper panel but piece still present). A very good copy, inscribed, in a presentable jacket."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. [These observations resulted in the title offered]His frank and personal depiction… Read More