Dakota Digest: March for Justice
Published (air date) June 18, 2010
BY PAUL GUGGENHEIMER
SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC RADIO
Alcohol is illegal on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Despite this, alcoholism has ravaged the community. Residents can buy beer only 200 feet from the town line across the border in Whiteclay, Nebraska. For the past dozen years, those who advocate shutting down those liquor stores have taken part in the “March for Justice.”
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