Native Mob

The Native Mob is a Native American street gang. The Native Mob Bloodz 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.^[4] The gang was created in the 1990s in Minneapolis, Minnesota and in 2013 was created in South Dakota to control drug turf, and has since established itself in prisons, and was estimated (2024) to have around 20,000 members.^{[citation needed]}

The Native Mob Bloodz has been present in tribal communities in the region since the gang began in the 1990s. 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 Twin Cities, Naytahwaush, and Prior Lake. Members routinely engage in drug trafficking, assault, robbery, and murder. According to reports they are also located in Mandan, North Dakota. These specific reports site that trafficking of primarily drugs from Mandan to other areas in Minnesota.^[5]