Sorry, free enterprise & all that.

The sovereign nation knife cuts both ways.

Indians have always had a big thirst for "firewater".

Yeah? So what? Do they drag people off the "res" and point guns at them, and make them buy liquor?

This is going nowhere.

Beer-- the opiate of the Native Americans-- but how much is resold at the casino?

Driving through a reservation in northern Arizona, the glitter on the side of the road from broken beer bottles was blinding. But it's all the fault of the white man.

Sorry, that's like suing McDonald's because you ate too many fries and got fat. No one is making them buy the booze and drink it.

Their bodies, their choices. Should we outlaw all of those casinos while we are at it?

Obviously this is not a "pro choice" bunch.

As long as they are legal drinking age - let them drink. If they are smuggling it onto the reservation, that's the reservation's problem.

Remember, this is Pine Ridge, a reservation with a long reputation of corrupt tribal leadership. They'd rather sue an innocent business than deal with the problem.

I sympahise with the Indian population. Alcohol is a scourge on the reservations. But giving them the right to govern anyone off the reservation does not fix the problems. And it starts down a slippery slope.

it really not that much beer, something like sixty thousand six packs a month. A few guys, a few parties, adds up.

I live on the border of an Indian reservation in Scottsdale. So many die from alcohol, so young. It's very sad. A friend of mine has a store where they cash casino revenue sharing checks. He posts notices of funerals and Memoriums. Everyone is for someone under 50. Yes this is all legal, it's free enterprise, but it's like opening a liquor store across from an alcohol rehabilitation facility. Your preying on the vulnerable. You can't drink the beer legally in the town or on the reservation, so where do these merchants think their product will be consumed?

There must be about 20 stores that sell beer in a 5 mile radius from my house - perhaps I should sue them next time I'm passed up for a promotion? (Could have been increasing my "skills" but was some how hypnotized in to drinking beer and watching football).

I'd recommend that the tribal leadership fix the problem not the blame...

and a second thought - this seems like a serious problem that could be solved - maybe if we shifted some of the resources going to combat Climate "Change" to this issue it could be solved... Where are all the Hollywood Stars when it comes to issue like these? Maybe some of the casino could be diverted to treatment programs? I'll just shut up now...

They choose socialism.
It is killing them.

Indians, like another minority group I can think of, want the lawyers and the courts to find someone else responsible for their ignorant and irresponsible behavior...much like our pResident.

And Van Jones can scream, "Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth!"...so they can buy more beer and further retard a retarded life span. Funny how that word, 'retard,' keeps occurring. Fortunately, in this case we can look at the context in which it's used.

The advice of Newt Gingrich to the OWS clowns can be applied here: "Get a job after you take a bath [and get out of alcohol rehab]."

By my unscientific calculation, that would be more than a case of beer per day for every man, woman and child on the Rez. Apparently they have a lot of softball tournaments.

Living 20 miles from this town, we "racist" townspeople and farmers are opposed to these lawsuits and shutting down Whiteclay. Why put hundreds of Native Americans who have gone to the nearby towns to purchase liquor on the road to kill the rest of us through drunk driving. I appreciate Lucianne members who can see the situation for what it is. It is terribly sad to see them self destruct, but thousands and thousands of dollars and mission groups coming in every year cannot stem the carnage in lives and families.

Well, they are using our tax dollars to buy beer made by Americans.

No one is forcing them to buy beer. They choose to do it themselves.

They need to take Personal Responsibility.

It's unbelievable. Idiots.

It used to be against the law to sell firewater to the red man. but that was deemed to be discriminatory.
Nice outcome, hey?

Some of those Fast and Furious guns must have been sold to be held against the heads of the Indians forcing them to buy the beer.

We talk here about the plight of blacks in America, but Indians in America are faring even worse. The White Mountain Apache Tribe in Northern AZ is close to my hometown. You look at the obituary page every week, and it's got at least two 20ish Indians, every week. There's a casino, but everyone still lives in poverty. There is a serial rapist who has raped over 20 women who has never been caught, and probably a serial killer who drives a tribal police car. The media is nowhere to be found. The alcoholism, meth use and corruption from the Tribal leaders is literally killing these poor people.

What # 16 said.

Alcohol, the Native American crack.

"We," collectively, cannot bring democracy to the Middle East, get the Africans to build their own country…or rescue American Indians who will sit in their desert and spend their government checks on alcohol. Give them more money….more alcohol. Sometime, somewhere, somehow every human being has to get up off their a** and stand up on their own two feet…And stop whining, for goodness sake! Come out into the world and DO SOMETHING!
By the way, if these four stores had closed of their own volition, five will get you ten the tribe would have been screaming 'discrimination'…and demanding a government liquor store be built.

#18 less than 4.5 cases of beer per year for every resident, not all that much. I works out to about 1 can of beer every three days. 4,300,000/40,000= 107.5 cans of beer per resident /24 = 4.479 cases per year. Besides, look at all the wealth that's being redistributed.

And those 11 people spend their profits in the Indian casino next door.
Problem solved.

Yo..yo.....Uh....Oh...Moochelle is gonna out law everything except broccoli and cauliflower in those stores. Ogala gonna start looking like Bugs Bunnies!!

Those casinos only make a few people super rich. Most of those tribes get screwed by their leaders once the gambling money comes in. With regard to alcohol, it is a well-known fact that Native Americans (including northern natives like Inuit) have a genetic "allergy" to alcohol. Something in their race makes them prone to alcoholism. Still, as another poster mentioned, when it was illegal to sell alcohol to Indians, it was deemed discriminatory and all heck broke loose. Now, because someone is not denying a sale to a Native American, they are talking about suing! It is stupid and if it goes through, I hope it gets tossed out. If it doesn't get tossed out, we are in big trouble...there won't be any freedom left.