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 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 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 KEVIN ABOUREZK / LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR / June 17,2013
The Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office arrested Oglala Sioux Tribe President Bryan Brewer on Monday morning in Whiteclay during a protest outside a beer store.
A dispatcher for the sheriff’s office confirmed Brewer’s arrest but declined to offer any more information. Brewer paid a fine and was released Monday afternoon, the dispatcher said. (more…)
ASSOCIATED PRESS / May 4, 2013
LINCOLN — A beer truck in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay was vandalized by activists protesting the town’s alcohol stores near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. (more…)
ASSOCIATED PRESS / January 23, 2013
OMAHA – Students from three Nebraska universities and a high school are calling for a public boycott of Anheuser-Busch products because of their sales to beer stores in the town of Whiteclay. (more…)
By CHRISTOPHER BURBACH / Omaha World-Herald /January 23, 2013
With protests, lawsuits and political pressure having failed to stop beer sales in tiny Whiteclay, Neb., students from three Nebraska universities and a high school are turning to consumer power as the latest weapon in the decades-long dispute.
It worked with fast food. Maybe, the students reason, it will work with Whiteclay beer sales that contribute to social ills on the neighboring Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
The students, led by Creighton Prep graduates who were first inspired by a high school class, on Tuesday announced a boycott of Budweiser beer and other Anheuser-Busch products. [Goto whiteclayboycott.blogspot.com.] They’re picking on Bud because Anheuser-Busch products compose a large majority of the beer that is sold by the four off-sale stores in Whiteclay — 4.3 million 12-ounce cans in 2011. The town has about a dozen residents. Most of the beer is sold to people from the Pine Ridge reservation, where alcohol is banned. (more…)
KETV Channel 7 News (Omaha) / Jan 22, 2013
OMAHA, Neb. —Local college and high school students are building support against alcohol sales near an Indian reservation.
Creighton University students are leading a boycott of Anheuser-Busch, saying the company is doing injustice to Whiteclay, Neb., near the South Dakota border and the Pine Ridge Reservation. (more…)