Pine Ridge News

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.

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.

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

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.

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