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court that would actually command retail defendants to refuse the sale of their otherwise publicly available goods to members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe who live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation based solely on their race and ethnicity."
• Alcohol officially is banned on Pine Ridge, a reservation with an estimated 40,000 residents that spans an area about the size of Connecticut. Roughly 5,700 residents live in Pine Ridge village, the reservation's largest town, which sits 2 miles north of Whiteclay.
• Whiteclay has a population of 11 people and

sold the equivalent of 4.3 million, 12-ounce cans of beer last year. Tribal leaders and activists blame the Whiteclay businesses for chronic alcohol abuse and bootlegging on Pine Ridge.
• One in four children born on the reservation suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and the average life expectancy is estimated between 45 and 52 years -- the shortest in the Northern Hemisphere except for Haiti, according to the lawsuit. The average American life expectancy is 77.5 years.
• The tribe's attorney, Tom White, has said if the lawsuit is allowed to go forward, he also will argue Nebraska officials have failed to enforce their own laws by allowing beer sales that far surpass the amount that can be legally consumed.
• Robert Keith, an attorney for the Arrowhead Inn store in Whiteclay, said the lawsuit's claims are "speculative, at best," and argued a ruling in the tribe's favor wouldn't solve its problems.
• "How can the plaintiff's alleged injuries be traced specifically to Arrowhead Inn's

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