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The Battle for Whiteclay was awarded Best Political Documentary at the 2009 New York International Independent Film Festival.
Published Sunday January 2, 2011
By Henry J. Cordes
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
The woman spent the whole afternoon drinking vodka and diet 7-Ups at an Omaha bar before getting behind the wheel of her pickup.
Later testing with a blood-alcohol level at almost double the legal limit, she swayed across the center line on Highway 36 at least a half dozen times before slamming head-on into a car driven by Joe Cowan of Council Bluffs. Read the rest of this entry »
Published Friday, Dec. 24, 2010
By REX ALBERTS (Valentine, Neb.)
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR (Letter to the Editor)
More and more alcohol will be consumed in Nebraska as approved by state government with later bar closing times and consumption allowed in state parks. This state government also faces a shortfall of nearly a billion dollars. Read the rest of this entry »
Published Wednesday December 22, 2010
By PAUL HAMMEL
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
LINCOLN — The notorious border town of Whiteclay, Neb., will see increased patrols by the local sheriff’s office under a $10,000 grant authorized by a new state law. Read the rest of this entry »
Published Monday, December 20, 2010
By LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
The Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs has awarded a $10,000 grant to the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office to increase patrolling of Whiteclay. Read the rest of this entry »
Published Monday November 22, 2010
By NATHAN PALMER, Georgia Southern University
SociologySource.com
“Have a great break and if you celebrate Thanksgiving, have a great Thanksgiving.” This is what I always say to my students at the end of our last class before the Thanksgiving/fall break. Without fail a student will ask me, “Who doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving?” When I suggest that Thanksgiving has a much different meaning for Native Americans & other colonized peoples my students either nod or roll their eyes at me. In my experience the students I have worked with are largely unaware of issues among Native American communities today. For many students the history of Native Americans ended with the government executed genocide. Students in the U.S. desperately need to learn about modern day injustices that Native Americans are currently living through. There is arguably no greater or more overt injustice than what is happening in Whiteclay Nebraska. Read the rest of this entry »
Published Monday November 1, 2010
By MARIA CHENG (Associated Press)
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
LONDON (AP) – Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study. Read the rest of this entry »
Published Thursday October 28, 2010
KEARNEY HUB
KEARNEY — A social and political activist and a film producer will speak at the opening event for Native American Heritage Month at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
The event will be at 7 p.m. Monday [Nov. 1] in Copeland Hall Room 142. The presentation is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available. Read the rest of this entry »
Published Thursday September 16, 2010
BY BRANDON VOGEL
THE READER (Omaha, Neb.)
Synopsis: The Whiteclay Advisory Committee, a local group of activists, hopes to bring the message about Whiteclay home with Sunday’s Concert for Whiteclay Awareness in Omaha. The concert (Sep. 19) features music from Michael Murphy, Cherokee singer-songwriter Michael Bucher and Oglala Lakota singer Duane Martin, Sr. Read the rest of this entry »
Published Sunday August 29, 2010
BY RICK GALUSHA
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD (Midlands Voices)
Nebraskans are shocked to learn that a portion of the second-poorest area in the entire Western Hemisphere lies within our state, in the area that includes the Pine Ridge Reservation. Consider the following figures from the 2002-03 edition of Regional Differences in Indian Health, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Read the rest of this entry »
Published Saturday August 28, 2010
BY TIM MURPHY
MOTHER JONES
Whiteclay, Nebraska—We’d barely gotten to the Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge reservation before we were told we should probably leave. The main road through was under construction, and we stopped to ask a woman holding a stop sign how to get to Wounded Knee. She set us straight, but then, as we were ready to go, offered some helpful advice: “Don’t get out of the car.”
Excuse me?
“Don’t stop anywhere. Don’t get out of the car.”
Of course, I don’t think she meant we should stop in Whiteclay either. For the uninitiated, Whiteclay is the very first outpost you hit driving south out of the reservation, folded just under the Nebraska state line. On this trip, I’ve seen cities that have died and cities that have been left for dead, but I’ve never passed through a place quite like Whiteclay, so one-dimensional in its horror it feels undead. Maybe the best way to fully understand the town’s purpose in life is to just run the numbers, Harpers Index-style: Read the rest of this entry »