“Ghost Dancing and the Iron Horse: Indigenous Use of the Railroad and the 1890s Ghost Dance Article” Submitted to Technology & Culture. Johns Hopkins University Press.
. 2011 Social Investment in Regions of Refuge: Survival Strategies among the Southern Paiute of Southern Nevada Chapter in Edited Volume Engineering Mountain Landscapes: An Archaeology of Social Investment (University of Utah Press). Nieves Zedeno and Laura Scheiber, eds.
Dr. Ruuska also presented the following paper , “Intersubjectivity, Social Investment, and the Act of Re-Membering Ancestral Drawings in Owens Valley, California” in Symposium: Technique and Interpretation in the Archaeological Record, Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California March 30—April 3, 2011.