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• Wang said the governor was willing to have an "an open, honest, and difficult" conversation about the challenges in Whiteclay, and set aside an hour in his schedule to meet with the tribal president after Brewer requested it. Others in attendance included Lt. Gov. Lavon Heidemann, the governor's chief-of-staff, a state policy adviser and the head of the Nebraska State Patrol.
• "Clearly, President Brewer finds himself in a very frustrating situation," Wang said. "But the state of Nebraska is responsible for upholding the laws in the state. President Brewer faces a sometimes sad and tragic situation on a sovereign land, confronting the sovereign people that he governs."
• Activists have targeted Whiteclay for well over a decade with marches, meetings with Nebraska officials and road blockades designed to stop alcohol from crossing into the reservation. But the situation has escalated in recent months. In May, vandals struck two beer trucks that were making deliveries to Whiteclay and clashed with local law enforcement officers who were keeping watch over a third shipment.
• Beer sales in Whiteclay have tumbled over the last two years, according to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission. The town, which has roughly a dozen residents, sold the equivalent of nearly 3.9 million, 12-ounce cans of beer in 2012 -- a 10 percent drop since 2011, according to the commission's year-end report.
• Brewer said he also met Monday with Nebraska state Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, a well-known advocate for poor and minority populations. Brewer said he still hopes to work with state officials, including Chambers and the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs.
• Had Monday's meeting continued, Brewer said he would have asked Heineman to help shutter Whiteclay by asking for Nebraska to restore a 50-square-mile buffer zone known as the Whiteclay extension, created in 1882 to protect Pine Ridge residents from whiskey peddlers. President Theodore Roosevelt eliminated it in 1904, which opened the land to settlement and alcohol sales.
• Restoring the zone would effectively give back the northwest Nebraska land to the tribe.
• The Oglala Tribal Council approved a ballot measure last month that would legalize alcohol on the reservation, which supporters say would generate tax revenue and reduce bootlegging. Opponents worry that doing so would only worsen the problem. A referendum date hasn't been set.
• Frank LaMere, a Native American activist from Nebraska's Winnebago Tribe, said Heineman failed to show Brewer the respect owed to the leader of a sovereign tribe.
• "I apologize for the way you were treated today," LaMere said at the news con

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