Jake Crandall Photography

Whiteclay, Neb. looking north with Pine Ridge Reservation in the distance on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. The town of 12 is home to four beer stores that sell 3.5 million cans of beer a year.

Street people hang out in front of abandoned building on the north side of Whiteclay, Neb. on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. Natives from the nearby Pine Ridge Reservation come to Whiteclay to get alcohol some, do not leave.

A can of Camo Black Ice, a 10.5 percent malt liquor and common drink of street people lays in the grass in Whiteclay, Neb. on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016.

A Lakota man drinks on the street in Whiteclay, Neb. on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016. While the towns official population is 12, it is common to find nearly 20 natives drinking on the streets of Whiteclay.

Denny "Junior" Reynolds looks out from the fence that surrounds his house in Whiteclay, Neb. on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016. Junior is one of 12 Whiteclay residents with his wife and two kids. He works in the town's mechanic shop and witnesses violence and crime daily.

A Lakota Man stands in the falling snow waiting for a ride home in Whiteclay, Neb. on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017.

Another street person hugs Alvin Hard Heart after he tells a group about the attempted suicide of his 13-year-old stepdaughter on the streets in Whiteclay, Neb. on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. Despite the news delivered by his wife who came from Pine Ridge, Hard Heart stayed on the streets of Whiteclay and was drinking the next morning.

Sheridan County Sheriff Terry Robbins wakes up a man passed out in Whiteclay, Neb. on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. The Sheriff office is located 22 miles south of Whiteclay in Rushville, Neb. with a small staff and large coverage area the sheriff and his deputies only make it to Whiteclay a few times a week.

A defaced Nebraska welcome sign that used to hang on the South Dakota border sits in the junkyard in Whiteclay, Neb. on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017.

Randy Skye, Burt Benjamin and Summer Rose Kaline died in a drunk driving accident Jan. 25, 2010; their crosses are just a few of many scattered across the Pine Ridge Reservation on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016. Former Tribal President Bryan Brewer said the greatest cost of Whiteclay alcohol on the reservation is the loss of human life.