Pine Ridge News

Good morning. Today is Monday, Dec. 14, a cold, icy day across the metro and northeast Nebraska.

Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his "homeboys" in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang.

Whiteclay, NE is walking distance from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Story Created: Dec 12, 2009 at 12:19 PM CST Story Updated: Dec 12, 2009 at 12:19 PM CST A leader in the Oglala Sioux Tribe told Nebraska lawmakers she doubts they're serious about solving problems in the alcohol-drenched border town of Whiteclay, Neb.

About 60 people assembled in the Milo Bail Student Center Nebraska Room at noon on Tuesday to discuss an issue that has been weighing heavily on the minds of Native Americans and their advocates in Nebraska.

Stew Magnuson's The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns is the 2009 Nebraska nonfiction book of the year, according to the Nebraska Center of the Book.

The state has a moral obligation to restrict or end alcohol sales in the border town of Whiteclay.

" As Nebraska lawmakers gathered Friday at the state Capitol talk about how to help his alcohol-drenched town, which has vexed politicians, local American Indians and activists for decades, Lance Moss let out a groan.

Nebraska lawmakers who took an eye-opening trip to Whiteclay earlier this year are trying to address alcohol problems there that have vexed politicians, activists and American Indians for decades.

Journalist and Nebraska native Stew Magnuson will read and discuss his new book, The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns, at the McCook City Library on Thursday, Sept.

They shouldn't be in Nebraska. Corn grows here. Prairie grass grows here. Summer is hot here.

American Indian communities are being overwhelmed by gang violence and drug trafficking.

American Indian communities are being overwhelmed by gang violence and drug trafficking.

Sheridan County Deputy Sheriff Richard Anderson said a man in his 30s was shot in the back of his left knee early Monday.

A man shot by a tribal officer on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been charged with assaulting a federal officer.

The FBI says a 25-year-old man shot by a tribal officer on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is in stable condition at a Rapid City hospital with wounds that do not appear to be life-threatening. Special Agent E.K. Wilson on Tuesday said the man who was shot Sunday in a housing area in the town of Pine Ridge was attempting to resist arrest and ...

Organizers say the blockade Wednesday will be on the South Dakota side of the South Dakota-Nebraska border.

The man who caused the American Indian Movement to gain national and worldwide attention was an Indian cowboy from Pine Ridge.

The conquest of the Wild West left North America's first inhabitants scattered, diseased and broken.