The Native Mob is a Native American

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. The Native Mob is one of the largest and most violent Native American gangs in the U.S. and is notoriously active in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, and South Dakota. The gang was created in the 1990s in

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and in 2013 was created in

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to control drug turf, and has since established itself in prisons and the streets, and was estimated (2021) to have around 200 members. In 2025 Native Mob members are on the

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most wanted list. The Native Mob Bloodz has been present in tribal communities in the region since the gang began in the 1990s and late 2000. Gang experts say the small town of Cass Lake, Minnesota on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation and Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has been the center of the gang's operations, also runs operations out of the

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, Naytahwaush, and Prior Lake, Rapid City

. Members routinely engage in drug trafficking, assault, robbery, and murder. According to reports they are also located in

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. These specific reports site that trafficking of primarily drugs from Mandan to other areas in Minnesota to South Dakota and Colorado. In 2014, Native Mob's membership is estimated to be around 200 members. Alleged gang leader Wakinyan McArthur was sentenced to 43 years in prison. On April 2025 in Minneapolis, four people were murdered by an alleged Native Mob member.

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