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Crime is a major problem in Pine Ridge Indian reservation and since many of the Native Americans grow up as master horsemen, the reservation has an actual problem with gangs of Indians on horseback terrorizing the towns and riding away into the sunset where police vehicles can't follow.

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1 in 4 children born on the Pine Ridge Native American Reservation is born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

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1. The Pine Ridge Indian reservation has the lowest life expectancy in the USA, and the second lowest in the Western Hemisphere, second only to Haiti.

2. Black Elk died on August 19, 1950 at the age of eighty-six in in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. He grave is in the Catholic cemetery in Manderson, South Dakota.

3. During World War II a portion of Badlands National Monument (now park), was taken over by the U.S. military to test artillery. Most was returned to the National Park Service in 1968, but the military still retains 2500 of the acres it took over from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation within Badlands National Park.

4. The town of Whiteclay, Nebraska has only 14 residents but sells around 4.9 million cans of beer a year (~13,000 cans per day), primarily to the residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation located just two miles north of the town.

5. Billy Mills. He won gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, after growing up on the poorest Native American reservation in the United States. (Pine Ridge, SD)

6. Although Black Elk focused on being a medicine man and healer after moving to the Pine Ridge Reservation, he became involved in fighting American soldiers during the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. The American soldiers were attempting to disarm the Indians when shooting began, killing hundreds of the Lakota, including 200 women and children.

7. Because the sale and possession of alcohol is illegal in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the nearby town of Whiteclay, Nebraska, population 14, sells over 4.9 million cans of beer annually to the reservation out of its 4 liquor stores.

8. After many of the Lakota were given amnesty by the Unite States government, Black Elk returned to live on the newly formed Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1881.

9. 13,000 cans of beer per day are sold in White Clay, NE, which has a population of 14. This is sold mainly to Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where alcohol has been banned due to rampant alcohol problems and an >75% unemployment rate.