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By Robert H. Ruby Dr.,Cary C. Collins,Charles V. Mutschler

In 1953 younger general practitioner Robert H. Ruby begun paintings because the leader clinical officer on the clinic at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He started writing nearly day-by-day to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota humans he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day by day existence at the reservation.

Ruby and his spouse have been energetic within the social lifetime of the non-white neighborhood, which allowed Ruby, additionally a self-trained ethnographer, to jot down intimately concerning the Oglala Lakota humans and their tradition, overlaying issues akin to faith, paintings, traditions, and values. His frank and private depiction of stipulations he encountered at the reservation examines poverty, alcoholism, the tutorial method, and employment stipulations and possibilities. Ruby additionally wrote seriously of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, describing the forms that made it tricky for him to do his task and saved his medical institution completely understaffed and undersupplied. those attractive letters offer a compelling memoir of lifestyles at Pine Ridge within the mid-1950s.

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