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Whiteclay Heats Up As Tribe Reconsiders Prohibition (6/7/2013)
(Nebraska) -- Activists and liquor store owners are clashing in the town of Whiteclay, Nebraska on the boarder of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Beer delivery trucks are...
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Whiteclay protesters vandalize beer truck (5/3/2013)
(Nebraska) -- Group members stomped on beer containers and threw them into the street. The truck's two front tires were slashed.
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Whiteclay alcohol sales dropped again in 2012 (3/18/2013)
(Nebraska) -- A tiny Nebraska town that sells millions of cans of beer on the border of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation saw its alcohol sales drop for...
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Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux Tribe takes on Whiteclay stores (3/7/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux Tribal President Bryan V. Brewer, Sr. joined more than 100 tribal members and allies for a peaceful round dance on the South Dakota/...
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S. Dakota's Pine Ridge tribe is at 'breaking point' over alcohol (3/5/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Every time she drives into Whiteclay, Neb., over the border from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Natalie Hand sees the images that turn her...
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Tribe Renews Efforts To Shut Down Whiteclay (3/4/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Pine Ridge may be a dry reservation, but those who live there don't have to travel far to find booze. Some tribal members travel to Whiteclay,...
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Alcohol protest planned in Whiteclay, Neb. (3/1/2013)
(Nebraska) -- Activists who want to end beer sales in the Nebraska town of Whiteclay planned a protest Friday after what they described as a showdown with law officers...
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Oglala Sioux Tribe President continues White Clay liquor protests (3/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, appeared in Rapid City Friday, just having returned from a protest in the Nebraska town of White Clay....
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Student group calls for change in Whiteclay (1/28/2013)
(Nebraska) -- The plight and struggle of alcoholism at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been well-documented over many years.
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Activists: Whiteclay protest ended peacefully (1/1/2013)
(Nebraska) -- A New Year's Eve protest of beer sales in Whiteclay ended peacefully with three of the Nebraska town's four alcohol stores closing early and making...
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Group to end 2012 with reservation booze blockade (12/31/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Native American activists were planning to spend the last hours of 2012 trying to disrupt the flow of alcohol onto South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian...
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Protest of Whiteclay beer sales planned on Monday (12/31/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Another protest over alcohol sales in the Nebraska town of Whiteclay is planned for New Year's Eve. Two Native American groups said Sunday that they...
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Native American tribe's battle over beer brews (10/12/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Anheuser-Busch, Pabst and MillerCoors are among the big beer makers the Oglala Sioux tribe has accused of illegally selling millions of cans of beer each...
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The Nebraska town with only 11 residents that sells more than FOUR MILLION cans of beer every year - because it's next to a Native American reservation (10/12/2012)
(Nebraska) -- An American Indian tribe is considering taking its case to state court after its lawsuit against four beer stores in Whiteclay, Nebraska was thrown out...
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Tribe weighs options in suit against beer sellers (10/4/2012)
(Nebraska) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, whose federal lawsuit against four Nebraska beer sellers and some of the nation’s biggest breweries was...
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Judge dismisses suit against A-B InBev over beer sales (10/2/2012)
(South Dakota) -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed in February against Anheuser-Busch InBev, three other beer companies and four liquor stores by a South...
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SD tribe's lawsuit against beer stores dismissed (10/1/2012)
(South Dakota) -- A federal judge dismissed an American Indian tribe's lawsuit Monday that blamed beer makers and nearby stores for chronic alcoholism on an...
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South Dakota Oglala Sioux tribe's beer lawsuit fails (10/1/2012)
(Nebraska) -- People of the tribe discuss their problems Continue reading the main story Related Stories The US tribe taking on big beer A federal judge has dismissed a...
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Protesters search cars for alcohol near Whiteclay (9/26/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation residents who started an unofficial alcohol checkpoint outside of the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay on Wednesday...
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Whiteclay Fallout: Women’s Day of Peace March Ends With Arrests and Youth Being Maced (8/29/2012)
(Nebraska) -- On August 26, several organizations looking to have a peaceful march of women and children to protest alcohol sales in Whiteclay, Nebraska ended with...
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ABOUREZK: Activist criticizes use of horse trailer to remove Whiteclay protestors (8/28/2012)
(Nebraska) -- A protest in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay ended Sunday after officers used a horse trailer to move five protesters to a nearby town.
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5 arrested in Whiteclay protest (8/27/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Five people protesting beer sales in the northern Nebraska town of Whiteclay were arrested when they locked arms and blocked a road.
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More than 100 march, protest Whiteclay liquor sales (8/27/2012)
(Nebraska) -- The Nebraska border town of Whiteclay filled Sunday afternoon as protesters from as far as the West Coast spoke and demonstrated in an attempt to end...
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Battling Alcoholism in Whiteclay: The Front Lines (7/20/2012)
(Nebraska) -- In the first part of our series Battling Alcoholism in Whiteclay, we visited the small Nebraska town on the border of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in...
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Battling Alcoholism in Whiteclay (7/19/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Whiteclay, Neb. sits on the border of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The town is located a few miles from a sign that welcomes visitors...
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WOODARD: Whiteclay Confessions: An Oglala Exposes Violent, Seamy Effects of Whiteclay’s Liquor Stores (6/7/2012)
(South Dakota) -- We went to a tribal member who spent years patronizing Whiteclay’s beer stores, but has now sobered up and turned his life around. He asked to...
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HIGHTOWER: 'Drink responsibly'? Try 'Lobby responsibly' (5/31/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Anheuser-Busch and other big brewers blocked a Nebraska bill that would have curbed sales targeted at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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BLOG: Should Businesses Pay Their Social Costs? (5/29/2012)
(Pennsylvania) -- Alcoholism on Indian reservations in the United States has been a chronic and devastating problem for the Native American community. According to a...
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LETTER: Helping Native Americans (5/17/2012)
(New York) -- To the Editor: Re “Poverty’s Poster Child” (column, May 10): Nicholas D. Kristof is right that Indian country faces disparities with the...
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How to Address Alcoholism on Indian Reservations (5/16/2012)
(New York) -- In The New York Times earlier this month, Nicholas D. Kristof called for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch because of how the company’s products are...
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LaMERE: Blood on Their Hands (5/16/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Any action short of shutting down Whiteclay and crippling the enterprise that peddles alcohol among the Lakota people is unacceptable. The death toll...
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GIAGO: 'Beer sniffing' reporters descend upon Pine Ridge (5/14/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The “beer sniffing” reporters from across the country, particularly those of the New York Times, descended upon the Pine Ridge Reservation...
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LETTER: Alcohol and the Reservation: Anheuser-Busch’s View (5/8/2012)
(New York) -- Re “A Battle With the Brewers,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, May 6): We care about the tragic problems of tribal members on the Pine Ridge...
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Beer Companies, Retailers Seek Dismissal of Indian Lawsuit (5/2/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Arguing that beer retailers would be forced to discriminate against American Indians if a $500 million lawsuit filed by the Oglala Sioux Tribe is...
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Beer companies seek dismissal of reservation suit (4/30/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Beer companies are asking a judge to dismiss a $500 million lawsuit by an American Indian tribe that accuses them of knowingly contributing to alcohol-...
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Indian Beer Bill Stalls; Industry Money Flows (4/11/2012)
(Nebraska) -- Legislation in Nebraska that would curtail alcohol purchases to residents of a dry Indian reservation has stalled in a key committee whose members have...
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Social Gaming
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Inside Britain's first internet rehab for kids where a 'digital detox' costs £16k for 28 days (4/20/2013)
(UK) -- Behind the wrought iron gates of a Victorian hospital, children are battling the demons of addiction. Theirs is not a craving for drugs or alcohol. These kids...
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Addiction to the internet very real, former addicts say (1/21/2013)
(Australia) -- DEAN Muggleton has one thing to say to people who think internet and video game addiction isn't a real problem: "It's real, and it can ruin...
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Gaming addictions getting worse (11/3/2012)
(Japan) -- Gaming addictions have increased in Japan, according to recent reports from counseling services and treatment centers. Counseling services have received...
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Native Voices
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LAMAR: Minnesota Tribes See Prescription Drug Use Leading to Heroin Addiction (12/6/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Sometimes when you make a prediction, you hope that you're wrong. More than a year ago, I sounded a warning that prescription painkiller addiction,...
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Giago: Alcoholism another vicious cycle in Indian Country (10/15/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Melvin “Dickie” Brewer, a classmate of mine at the Holy Rosary Indian Mission on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and a lifelong...
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Pine Ridge
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Lifting Alcohol Ban (11/28/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The newly elected President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Brian Brewer says he does not support legalizing alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Oglala Sioux Chairman Discusses Sale of Alcohol on Reservation (11/16/2012)
(South Dakota) -- As Indian Country Today Media Network reported in mid-October, the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s (OST) Law and Order Committee has proposed legalizing the...
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Proponent expects Oglala Sioux Tribe to allow sale of alcohol (11/16/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The council of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota will vote November 27 on a proposal to legalize alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
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Lifting Of The Pine Ridge Alcohol Ban Is Proposed (10/19/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The sale of alcohol has been illegal on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for more than 30 years, but some tribal leaders say it's time to life the...
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Pine Ridge Officials Propose Legalizing Alcohol (10/9/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Last week, a federal judge dismissed the Oglala Sioux Tribe's lawsuit against alcohol distributors. The case has since been opened in Nebraska.
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Tribe Considers Lifting Alcohol Ban in South Dakota (10/5/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe will propose lifting an alcohol ban on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota as a way to regulate the flow of beer...
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SD tribal VP says arrest had upside (6/7/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux Vice President Tom Poor Bear believes that, in some ways, his alcohol-related arrest earlier this year on the dry Pine Ridge Indian...
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Revel Casino
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Man injured after falling from escalator at Revel early Monday (9/10/2012)
(Atlantic City) -- A man was hospitalized after falling 40 feet from an escalator at the Revel Casino about 1:30 a.m. Police said the man was coming down the escalator...
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Eastern Band of Cherokee
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Tribal members argue legality of referendum (4/3/2012)
(North Carolina) -- Over 40 EBCI tribal members entered the Council Chambers on Tuesday, April 3 to hand deliver a letter to Principal Chief Michell Hicks asking for a...
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Other News
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County OKs restaurant's bid for beer license (5/21/2013)
(Wyoming) -- The Burris Roadhouse and Trading Company sits within the boundaries of the Wind River Indian Reservation. The Burris Roadhouse and Trading Company reached a...
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New peer mentoring program aims to keep kids away from substance abuse (5/17/2013)
(Wyoming) -- Substance abuse is a concern for most school districts across the country, but on the Wind River Indian Reservation, it’s a red flag for especially...
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Overcoming Addiction, Professor Tackles Perils American Indians Face (5/11/2013)
(Kansas) -- The visitor to Haskell Indian Nations University detailed his roaring 20s: drug addict, garbage collector, suicidal burnout once told by a doctor that he was...
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Music saved aboriginal singer, motivational speaker from life of addiction (5/11/2013)
(Nova Scotia) -- Aboriginal recording artist and motivational speaker Star Nayea told her painful story of abuse, searching for her true identity, and the power of music...
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Professor writes book about alcohol use among American Indians (5/5/2013)
(Iowa) -- A University of Northern Iowa professor has written a book about alcohol use among American Indians. "Native American Drinking: Life Styles, Alcohol Use,...
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Urban aboriginals who follow traditional ways less likely to become drug addicts, study finds (4/30/2013)
(Edmonton) -- Aboriginals who embrace their culture while living in cities are less likely to suffer from drug addiction, says a study conducted by a University of...
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Retired UNI professor publishes new book (4/13/2013)
(Iowa) -- Thomas W. Hill, professor emeritus at the University of Northern Iowa and the former head of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, has...
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EDITORIAL: Sobering reality: Wyo's beer tax too low (3/30/2013)
(Wyoming) -- Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall amount to 18.56 cents in state tax revenue. It’s safe to say the cost of substance abuse impact and treatment...
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LCO Tribe Battles Prescription Drug Abuse (3/30/2013)
(Wisconsin) -- Over 70 people listened to a panel of experts explain the issue of prescription drug abuse in Hayward on Saturday, but the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe knows...
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Chinese Gaming Addict Spends Six Years Playing Online Games (3/30/2013)
(China) -- A Chinese man has spent the last six years playing video games on the internet, barely moving from his seat in a gaming parlour in the north-eastern Jilin...
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Chaske Spencer: A Native Actor Who Left Addiction Behind (3/19/2013)
(Colorado) -- Chaske Spencer is known for his alpha wolf portrayal in The Twilight Saga, but many people aren’t aware that he’s also an activist speaking out...
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Fremont County leads Wyoming beer tax hike effort (3/18/2013)
(Wyoming) -- Fremont County officials and residents are again behind an effort to increase the state tax on beer to raise money for substance abuse treatment.
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Fremont County leads Wyoming beer tax hike effort (3/17/2013)
(Wyoming) -- Fremont County officials and residents are again behind an effort to increase the state tax on beer to raise money for substance abuse treatment.
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UI center to train those working in addiction treatment (3/11/2013)
(Iowa) -- Despite Iowa’s comparatively low American Indian and Alaska Native populations relative to other states, the federal government has selected the...
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Culturally sensitive addiction treatment (3/4/2013)
(Iowa) -- In a move to promote adoption of culturally legitimate evidence-based addictions treatment and recovery services to American Indians and Alaska Natives...
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Alcohol abuse bill makes way through Arizona Legislature (2/26/2013)
(Arizona) -- In some northern Arizona communities, excessive drinking and cold weather can have deadly results.
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Local program seeks to prevent alcohol or drug abuse among Natives (1/25/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A program known as Takoja Niwicawipi — which translates to "giving life to the grandchildren" — is growing in its reach in the...
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Study shows surprising fetal alcohol disorder numbers (1/21/2013)
(Prince Edward Island) -- A new study gives Prince Edward Island health-care workers an indication of how many Island women may be drinking heavily during pregnancy.
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Devils Lake cracks down on 'habitual drunkards' (1/7/2013)
(North Dakota) -- Police in the northeastern North Dakota city of Devils Lake have barred businesses from selling alcohol to area residents who have been jailed...
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Man charged in fatal crash that killed 5 children, 1 adult (1/1/2013)
(Mississippi) -- A community mourns and prepares to bury five young siblings and one adult who were killed when their vehicle entered a creek near the Neshoba-Newton...
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