Meet the Shadow Wolves...

[SteelCore]

Czech out these guys...serious.

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2003/january/wolves.php

Shadow Wolves
An all-Indian Customs unit—possibly the world's best trackers—uses time-honored techniques to pursue smugglers along a remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border.

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/images/articles/2003/jan/pop/shadowolves_nez.jpgOfficer Bryan Nez (sitting on 477 pounds of confiscated marijuana) and his 20 fellow Shadow Wolves intercept more illegal drugs than any other Customs unit in Arizona.

This is their unofficial web home:
http://www.shadow-wolves.org/
look how many gun websites they're linked to! I bet we could get this one listed...

[Private Fuzzy]

Wow, a couple hundred thousand of those guys and our immigration problems would be over.

[OrygunKid]

Don't get me wrong, they sound like they're doing an awesome job! But our government is funding this? that couldn't be cause it sounds like it's actually working! I thought all politicians do is sit around and tell the public they are closing our borders.....:icon_smile:

[Private Fuzzy]

Don't get me wrong, they sound like they're doing an awesome job! But our government is funding this? that couldn't be cause it sounds like it's actually working! I thought all politicians do is sit around and tell the public they are closing our borders.....:icon_smile:

It does sound very Minutemen-esque.

[cimmaronkid]

Hey, remember that this state gave this country the wind talkers of WWII fame and Ira Hayes of the Marines. I know that the "old ways" are still taught to the young to keep their traditions alive. If I was a drug smuggler, the last thing I would want is a pack of these guys on my tail as they are very proficient at what they do.

[bullseye]

What I don't get is if they are part of Homeland insecurity and US Customs, why don't they arrest all the folks they find in the desert? If anyone is out there they are most likely not legal and if cannot provide documentation they should be arrested. Hell, Sherrif Joe will take them in, he has lots of room. :)

[pigpen]

I think thats racist to have only indians in the shadow-wolves. Why won't they let honkys like me in??:icon_wink:

[DaCapster]

You don't have be Indian to track tonks.....

They leave trails of trash all along the route, They are pretty worn out so they make nice deep foot prints.
The best way to catch them is to drive your truck down dirt road and honk the horn to "La Cukaroacha" Beep Beep beep....beep x2
They come running~

[okie shooter]

I imagine the tribe got tired of folks running over the reservation and threating their tribal members and dammageing tribal members property. Thus if you read the article they used to be part of the tribal law enforcement before being brought in under the dept of homeland security. I imagine since they work on tribal land they used to be able to give first shot for any openings to Natives. Go out and apply for any job that is funded by a tribe or BIA or such services for a tribe and you wont stand a chance unless there is a huge shortage of folks applying for the position.

[Private Fuzzy]

I imagine the tribe got tired of folks running over the reservation and threating their tribal members and dammageing tribal members property. Thus if you read the article they used to be part of the tribal law enforcement before being brought in under the dept of homeland security. I imagine since they work on tribal land they used to be able to give first shot for any openings to Natives. Go out and apply for any job that is funded by a tribe or BIA or such services for a tribe and you wont stand a chance unless there is a huge shortage of folks applying for the position.

I am a quarter Mexican. Do you think that would help me or would that work against me in this case?

[SteelCore]

Uh, tribal cop history. Ndns on the res get to police their own.

that, and ye'd get too bad a sunburn, vanilla-face! ;)

[okie shooter]

I am a quarter Mexican. Do you think that would help me or would that work against me in this case?

I am half japanese, I got rejected for jobs that listed open for years, I imagine they may have never filled it untill a native applied for it . If its a federal BIA/Indian job, those jobs are preferental filled by indian folks, if its a actual tribal job, not related to the goverment, they can fill it with who ever they want I beleive.

[demon]

as a general rule,most all BIA/marshals who operate on tribal lands,can only work in there restricted areas and only have powers of arrest of ONLY tribal members....
so if you are a honkey? or whitey only feloneys are prusued,so get drunk,nekked and piss on a bia car and ya get to walk,;) wonderfull gov huh? also bia cops are looked at as TRAITORS to the tribe....
we tend to see them as officals who want all our stuff,guns,women,firewater....
I worked in LE a lot of years and I WOULD NEVER TAKE A BIA JOB.
but ya last I heard they were calling up trackers and sending them over seas to the bigsandbox :)

[Cavalryman]

A couple of little-known facts:

When the Alaska Army National Guard was formed in 1960, they were composed almost entirely of Indians and Alaska Natives and were designated the 38th Special Forces Group. Most of them were not required to attend military training or wear uniforms. Their function was to provide early warning in the event of a Soviet invasion via the Bering Strait and then to make the Russians' lives miserable. I have no doubt they would have done that. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Alaska Army National Guard was reorganized along more conventional lines and is now known as the 207th Infantry Group (Scout).

The branch insignia of the Army Special Forces is crossed arrows, which was originally the insignia of the Indian Scouts. The Indian Scouts as a formal organization was discontinued in WWII.

[demon]

wow I never heard that,thanks

[Cavalryman]

Okay, I was off on just a couple of minor points. According to this link, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/207in.htm the Alaska National Guard was organized as the 38th Special Forces Detachment in 1964, not 1960.

[demon]

still good info :)