WHITECLAY, Neb. (AP) Volunteers staged another blockade over the weekend, aimed at keeping beer out of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcoholism is rampant.

And this time, the tribal police cooperated.

Last year, they shut down a similar blockade and arrested three organizers.

Blockade members stopped cars Saturday and asked drivers if they had alcohol. Then tribal police farther down the road confiscated any alcohol brought onto the reservation and ticketed violators.

Four stores in Whiteclay, Nebraska a village just outside the 16,500-member reservation sell about 4 million cans of beer a year, mostly to American Indians.

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