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Article: Budweiser's Help Sought on Reservation
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- September 19, 2007
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Organizers of an effort to keep booze off South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - where alcohol is banned but alcoholism is rampant - plan to take their case to the nation's largest beer company.
Anheuser-Busch is the latest target of activists upset that four stores in tiny Whiteclay, Neb. - just yards from the reservation border - sell about 4 million cans of alcohol a year, mostly to American Indians who live on the 16,500-member reservation.
Some Oglala Sioux tribal members and those affiliated with the activist group Nebraskans for Peace have twice tried to set up roadblocks to stop vehicles entering the reservation and confiscate any alcohol.
They also ...