Published Friday May 7, 2010
BY TIMBERLY ROSS (The Associated Press)
RAPID CITY JOURNAL

OMAHA – Sheridan County has agreed to pay $100,000 to a grieving mother and improve suicide-prevention policies at its jail as part of a settlement over deaths there, an attorney in the case announced Thursday. (more…)

Published Friday February 19, 2010
BY NANCY HICKS and JoANNE YOUNG
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

Omaha Sen. Tom White has offered his solution to the Whiteclay alcohol problem: Sue the beer distributors. (more…)

Published Monday January 11, 2010
BY CHET BROKAW
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – A settlement in a lawsuit will require the federal government to pay $650,000 in damages to an Oglala Sioux woman who was sexually assaulted by a U.S. Army recruiter, the woman’s lawyer said Thursday.

The settlement leaves intact a federal judge’s ruling that an 1868 treaty with the Sioux required the government to pay damages for pain and suffering to Lavetta Elk, said attorney Adam Horowitz of Miami. (more…)

Published Saturday July 25, 2009
By PAUL HAMMEL
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN — A former South Dakota senator is urging President Barack Obama to rescind a 104-year-old executive order that allows alcoholic beverage sales to Native Americans in the reservation border town of Whiteclay, Neb. (more…)

Published July 9, 2003
BY BUTCH MABIN
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

A South Dakota man whose brother’s and cousin’s mutilated bodies were found in a ditch near Pine Ridge in 1999 is demanding Nebraska create a task force to investigate those deaths as well as some 50 other unsolved homicides at the Oglala Lakota reservation.

Thomas R. Poor Bear, in a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha, also wants the state to better regulate liquor sales at the nearby village of Whiteclay, which his lawsuit likened to the infamous 19th century “whisky ranches.” (more…)