Bøker av Robert H. Ruby

Oh God, here comes Esther Ross." Such was the greeting she received from members of the US Congress during her repeated trips to the Capitol on behalf of Stillaguamish Indians. In this rare, in-depth portrait of a contemporary American Indian woman, Robert Ruby and John Brown document Esther Ross's life and achievements.

This detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of his Indian Shaker Church. Students of Native American religion and Christianity will find this a moving story both of assimilation and of the curing that is the Shaker Church's reason for being.

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.