There’s something strange about the town of White Clay, Nebraska. It’s not that the town only has 14 people, though that makes it one of the nations’ smallest. It’s not even its proximity to Native land — barely 200 feet away from the Pine Ridge border.

What really sets White Clay apart is that it has four liquor stores — that’s 3.5 per resident. The entire town seems to be little more than a sick and predatory scheme to prey upon poverty and addiction, and skirt Native laws on alcohol consumption. The stores have been caught, repeatedly, selling to minors and intoxicated individuals.

Providing an ‘eviction’ notice, and blockading the town, the Oglala natives, environmental groups and Occupy Lincoln members have successfully called for an investigation of the liquor stores.

Videos of the protests are here and here, and lawsuits are underway:

Learn more:
Save Pine Ridge
Battle for White Clay

Finally, this is the request for help from Pine Ridge reservation on general matters.
Finally, this is the request for help from Pine Ridge reservation on general matters.