(Omaha, Nebraska-AP) -- The court cases against nine
                     American Indian protesters charged in a march on Whiteclay,
                     Nebraska, will be delayed. The nine, including activist Russell
                     Means, are scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 31 in Sheridan
                     County, Nebraska, Court. They were each charged yesterday
                     with two misdemeanor counts: obstruction of a police office and
                     failure to comply with a lawful order. Those charged say they
                     plan to use their court appearances to argue Indian treaty claims
                     to the village of Whiteclay. The nine were arrested July 3 after
                     breaking through a yellow plastic streamer marking a police line
                     in a march from Pine Ridge to Whiteclay. Indians held the march
                     to protest alcohol sales in Whiteclay and the unsolved murders of
                     two Lakota men.