Published Tuesday July 06, 2010
THE CHADRON RECORD
By the Rapid City Journal
Oglala Sioux Tribe police officers set up alcohol checkpoints outside Whiteclay on Thursday, July 1 but reports that alcohol being taken to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation was confiscated were disputed by tribal officials. (more…)
Published Monday July 5, 2010
BY RANDALL HOWELL (Native Sun News Managing Editor)
NATIVE AMERICAN TIMES
WHITE CLAY, Neb. –– They will be back like a bad hangover.
And, they’ll be setting up what has become known as the Whiteclay Blockade – a blockade that serves as a one-day barrier to what amounts to the smuggling of alcohol – beer, mostly – onto the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. (more…)
Published Friday July 2, 2010
BY MARY GARRIGAN
RAPID CITY JOURNAL
Oglala Sioux Tribe police officers set up alcohol checkpoints outside Whiteclay, Neb., on Thursday and confiscated 52 cases of beer that were being transported to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, according to a blockade organizer. (more…)
Published Wednesday July 1, 2009
BY JOHN AXTELL
KQSK 97.5 FM (Double Q Country Radio) / Chadron, Neb.
The anti-alcohol activists who organized today’s alcohol blockade at the Nebraska-South Dakota state line north of Whiteclay think it may have renewed efforts to halt alcohol sales in the unicorporated border community.
Officially an alcohol checkpoint, the blockade saw members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety spend several hours checking vehicles coming onto the Pine Ridge Reservation from Whiteclay for alcohol.
Published in the April 2009 issue of NEBRASKA REPORT
Reprinted from the June 30, 2008 issue of COUNTERPUNCH
BY JAMES G. ABOUREZK
White Clay, Nebraska, is a tiny village—population 14—in the northwest corner of Nebraska. Despite its size, however, it boasts four liquor stores to serve its customers, most of whom come from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation just across the border in southwest South Dakota. (more…)
Published Saturday March 7, 2009
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
1998 — Activists ask the Nebraska Liquor Commission to shut down four liquor stores in Whiteclay, saying the stores exploit American Indians who live on the nearby Pine Ridge reservation. (more…)
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Published Saturday Jun 28, 2008
BY LISA MUNGER
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
Three men wearing yellow safety vests and holding red flags stopped vehicles as they traveled north from Whiteclay on Saturday afternoon.
They were part of a blockade set up to stop alcohol from getting into the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
The men, members of the Strong Heart Civil Rights movement based in Pine Ridge and of Nebraskans for Peace, asked motorists in the cars they stopped if they had alcohol. Pine Ridge Tribal police stationed down the road confiscated alcohol taken onto the reservation and issued citations to violators. (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…)