Oglala Sioux Present Bryan Brewer was scheduled to go home Tuesday after more than two weeks in the hospital with a broken hip and ribs suffered late last month in a single-vehicle accident.

Tribal spokeswoman Toni Red Cloud says Brewer still needs surgery in the future for the broken hip, but expected to be back in his office on Wednesday.

Brewer was injured December 29th when his vehicle crashed on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Red Shirt Table area. He’s been in Rapid City Regional Hospital since then, most of the time in its rehabilitation unit.

The career educator who made a successful entry into politics by winning the Oglala Sioux presidency in November had been in office less than a month at the time of the accident.