NYTs: “Nebraska Liquor Stores Near Pine Ridge Reservation Lose Licenses”

Here.

More News on Whiteclay: Profile of Jennifer Bear Eagle

Here is “From the Rez and Back: Legal Eagle Helps Her Tribe.”

News on Whiteclay Beer Mills: $6.3M To Buy Out Liquor Store Owners

Here is “Pastor Raises Money To Buy Out Liquor Stores Near Reservation.”

Federal Court Dismisses Oglala Sioux Tribe Suit against Whiteclay Distributors and Beer Companies

News coverage.

Here:

DCT Order Dismissing OST Complaint

One other pleading:

OST Brief in Opposition

The complaint is here.

ICT Coverage of Oglala Sioux against Beer Distributors

Here.

Second Amended Complaint in Oglala Suit against Brewers and Whiteclay Distributors

Here.

More details here.

Via Pechanga.

News Coverage of Whiteclay Suit: “Gold Mines in Hell”

Here.

Whiteclay, Nebraska. Population 14, exists only to sell alcohol to Native Americans already reeling from its damage. / Photo by Stephanie Woodard

Additionally, the reporter, Stephanie Woodward, conducted three interviews with Indian country professionals (Diane Garreau, Frank LaMere, Danialle Rose) on Indian child welfare in the aftermath of the NPR profile from last year.

 

NYTs: Reverse Federal Liquor Regulation Allowing Booze Near Indian Reservations

From the NYTs:

By JAMES ABOUREZK

SINCE taking office, President Obama has overturned several of George W. Bush’s executive orders. I would like to recommend he also overturn one of Theodore Roosevelt’s.

Fourteen years after the Great Sioux Reservation was established in western South Dakota in 1868, President Chester Arthur issued an executive order creating a 50-square-mile buffer zone on its southern edge, in Nebraska. This was meant to prevent renegade whites from selling guns, knives and alcohol to Indians living on the reservation.

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