By ASSOCIATED PRESS / July 10, 2013
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — A Scottsbluff beer distributor is limiting deliveries to stores in Whiteclay out of concern about the safety of drivers.
KNEB radio reports (http://bit.ly/1b0xzJm ) Jeff Scheinost, who owns High Plains Budweiser, has decided to stop delivering to Whiteclay, a tiny town that borders South Dakota and the officially dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. (more…)
By KOTA Territory News / July 10, 2013
A Scottsbluff beer distributor is limiting deliveries to stores in Whiteclay out of concern about the safety of drivers.
KNEB radio reports Jeff Scheinost, who owns High Plains Budweiser, has decided to stop delivering to Whiteclay, a tiny town that borders South Dakota and the officially dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. (more…)
By KNEB 960 Rural Radio / July 10, 2013
A Scottsbluff beer distributor says a marked police presence in Whiteclay is needed after his beer truck was vandalized this week by protestors during deliveries. The incident involving a High Plains Budweiser truck Monday is the second in the past two weeks. A Dietrich Distributing truck was vandalized and the driver was threatened at knifepoint in the first situation. [Correction: The first incident involving the Dietrich Distributing truck occurred on May 3.]
High Plains Budweiser owner Jeff Scheinost says at least six people were involved in Monday’s vandalism while his four employees, three inside and one outside, were making a delivery to the Stateline Liquor Store. (more…)
By ASSOCIATED PRESS / RAPID CITY JOURNAL / July 8, 2013
Less than three minutes into a meeting Monday about alcohol sales in Whiteclay, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe walked out on Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman.
Tribal president Bryan Brewer said he left because he felt the governor has no intention of trying to address alcohol-related problems that stem from the Nebraska town that sells millions of cans of beer and borders South Dakota’s officially dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He also accused Heineman of greeting him with a hostile tone, an allegation the governor denied. (more…)
By JEREMY ANDERSON / KCSR (Chadron) AM 61.0 / July 8, 2013
(Chadron)- A listener tip to KCSR/KBPY news indicated that a beer distribution truck was again attacked this morning in the small town of Whiteclay where protest have been taking place regarding alcohol sales in the town that boarders the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
A phone call made to the Nebraska State Patrol gave details into this morning’s incident. According to Lt. Rogers of the Nebraska State Patrol, shots being fired were reported earlier Monday, and that a shot from an air soft gun had hit a beer distribution truck in Whiteclay. Rogers said that all deliveries were made as scheduled, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs is currently investigating the situation.
No protests were taking place at the time of the incident. Calls made to the Pine Ridge Bureau of Indian Affairs for further information have not yet been returned.
By KEVIN ABOUREZK / LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR / July 8, 2013
Not many problems can be solved in two minutes.
And that includes the situation in Whiteclay.
Oglala Sioux Tribe President Bryan Brewer of South Dakota and Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman had planned for weeks to get together Monday morning to try to address alcohol sales in Whiteclay and alcoholism on the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
But the meeting ended after fewer than three minutes, and the governor’s office and Brewer later traded barbs over whose fault that was. (more…)
By JOE DUGGAN / OMAHA WORLD-HERALD / July 8, 2013
LINCOLN — The first meeting between the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Nebraska’s governor may prove to be the last.
The two leaders met Monday morning at the State Capitol to discuss the flash point issue of alcohol sales in the northwest Nebraska border town of Whiteclay. According to accounts from both sides, the meeting, scheduled for one hour, lasted just a few minutes. (more…)
By ALCOHOL JUSTICE / July 7, 2013
LINCOLN, Neb., July 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Alcohol Justice is reporting that Oglala Sioux Tribal President Bryan Brewer will hold a press conference in front of the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission on Monday afternoon, July 8, 2013, to hopefully discuss new developments in stopping the illegal alcohol activity taking place in the town of Whiteclay, which borders the Pine Ridge, South Dakota Native American Reservation. Earlier that day President Brewer will be meeting with theNebraska Governor, Liquor Control Commission, and key state legislators to discuss possible solutions. (more…)
By ASSOCIATED PRESS / OMAHA WORLD-HERALD / June 21, 2013
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said his recent arrest during a protest against alcohol sales in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay won’t deter him from voicing his disapproval of the possibility of allowing alcohol on the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. (more…)
By CHARLES MICHAEL RAY / SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC BROADCASTING / June 19, 2013
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I’m Robert Siegel. On the Pine Ridge Reservation at the southern edge of South Dakota, alcohol is banned. But just outside the reservation, the tiny border town of Whiteclay, Nebraska, sells as much as 5 million cans of beer a year. Most of the buyers are impoverished tribal residents. Earlier this week, the Oglala Sioux tribal president was arrested while taking part in a blockade of beer delivery trucks in Whiteclay.
Activists have been clashing with liquor store owners and the conflict is escalating, as South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s Charles Michael Ray reports. (more…)