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Whiteclay (Lakota: Makȟásaŋ; \"whiteish or yellowish clay\"), known to the U.S. Census Bureau as Pine Ridge, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Sheridan County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 14 at the 2000 census. A significant part of Whiteclay's economy is based on alcohol sales to residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, located two miles (3.2 km) north across the border in South Dakota, where alcohol consumption and possession is prohibited. According to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission, beer sales at Whiteclay's four liquor stores totalled 4.9 million cans in 2010 (~13,000 cans per day) for gross sales of $3 million. The four beer merchants paid federal and state excise taxes (included in liquor’s sale price) of $413,932 that year.

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Pine Ridge is also known as Whiteclay. Pine Ridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sheridan County, Nebraska County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 14 at the United States Census, 2000 census. . .