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Pine Ridge, South Dakota is located in Shannon County. Zip codes in Pine Ridge, SD include 57770. More Pine Ridge information.

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Friday Feb 10 | Reuters

Indian tribe files $500 million suit against big brewers

A Native American Indian tribe sued leading beer makers seeking $500 million in damages and accusing them of knowingly contributing to "crippling" alcoholism rates on one of the nation's largest reservations in South Dakota.

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Thu Feb 09, 2012

Star Tribune

American Indian tribe sues beer makers, cites Neb. town for alcohol problems on SD reservation

LINCOLN, Neb. - An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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Fri Jan 27, 2012

KDLT-TV Sioux Falls

Students Combat Native American Stereotypes

They're powerful words routinely used to describe people living on American Indian reservations: poor, violent, alcoholic and obese.

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Wed Jan 25, 2012

The Huffington Post

Tim Giago: The Second Poorest County in America

The old saying goes that "The more things change, the more they stay the same." That, my friends, is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in a nutshell.

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Wed Jan 18, 2012

ArgusLeader.com

Pine Ridge voters sue Fall River

Twenty-five Shannon County residents are suing state and local officials for making early and absentee voting more difficult than it is elsewhere.

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