Published Tuesday Aug 17, 2010 / Updated Thursday Aug 19, 2010
INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include a clarification of the position of the governor’s office on the matter of jurisdiction over the town of Whiteclay. The governor’s office does not respond to nor speak on behalf of political parties. (more…)
Published Tuesday Aug 17, 2010
By STEPHANIE WOODARD
INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY
LINCOLN, Neb. – Crime in the town of Whiteclay, Neb., which sells some four million cans of beer and malt liquor annually, almost entirely to Oglala Sioux Tribe members from the dry Pine Ridge Reservation, is not Nebraska’s responsibility, said Ashley Cradduck, spokeswoman for the state’s governor, Dave Heineman, a Republican. “The Indians are coming from Pine Ridge, and that’s in South Dakota.” (more…)
Published Wednesday December 9, 2009 RAPID CITY JOURNAL WANBLEE — Webster C. Poor Bear, 58, Wanblee, died Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009, in Sturgis. (more…)
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Published December 14, 2008
BY NANCY KELSEY
REZNET (www.reznetnews.org)
LINCOLN, Neb. — Just south of Pine Ridge, S.D., is a place that Frank LaMere calls Nebraska’s “dirty little secret.” (more…)
Published June 29, 2007
BY KATIE BROWN
RAPID CITY JOURNAL
WHITECLAY, Neb. — At least four activists were arrested Thursday during a struggle between Oglala Sioux Tribal police and protestors attempting to set up a blockade to keep people from bringing alcohol from Whiteclay, Neb., into Pine Ridge Village.
Both sides started out Thursday with what they said was a common goal of keeping alcohol off the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where it has long been illegal. (more…)
Published Thursday June 28, 2007
BY CARSON WALKER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PINE RIDGE, S.D. — Tribal police Thursday shut down a volunteer blockade aimed at keeping beer out of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcoholism is rampant, and arrested three organizers who refused to leave [sic; actual number arrested was six]. (more…)
Published Wednesday September 1, 1999
BY DAVID HENDEE
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Rushville, Neb. – Nine American Indian activists arrested earlier this summer during a standoff at a border village with state troopers are taking their fight to the courts.
Rather than enter pleas Tuesday in Sheridan County Court, the group – including noted activist Russell Means – filed papers challenging Nebraska’s jurisdiction in their misdemeanor criminal cases. (more…)
Published Monday August 9, 1999
BY PAUL HAMMEL AND JEFF BUNDY
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITERS
Whiteclay, Neb. – After taking over this tiny village on the border of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for two hours Sunday, Indian activists left, pledging instead to halt traffic from the reservation into Whiteclay and to use legal means to end alcohol sales. (more…)
Published Sunday August 8, 1999
BY JOE DUGGAN
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
PINE RIDGE, S.D. — For years after returning to the rolling hills of his Lakota homeland, John Means battled a darkness worse than Vietnam.
Sometimes without warning, he would sink into horrible depressions. The doctors called it post traumatic stress disorder. When it happened, the Purple Heart recipient often sought solace from an aluminum can or a green bottle, and just as often he would sink even deeper into the darkness.
But somehow, John Means would always re-emerge. Time after time, he fought setback after setback, and he rebuilt part of his life. (more…)