The Oglala Sioux Tribe is supporting a blockade aimed at stopping the flow of liquor into the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Activist will set up the blockade on the highway that leads from Whiteclay, Nebraska, to the reservation. Any cars found with liquor will be confiscated.
The tribe and activists have long opposed the sale of liquor in Whiteclay. The four stores there sell an 12,000 cans of beer a day, mostly to reservation residents.
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