Native gangs use powwows and ceremonies to recruit new members, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The gangs are typically involved in drugs, theft, and prostitution in urban areas with high percentages of Native people. But they have also moved into rural reserves and areas where First Nations have gone into oil and gas exploration, Cpl. Mike Moyer, the RCMP aboriginal gang coordinator in British Columbia said.

"Right across Canada we're seeing an increase in aboriginal gangs,” Moyer told The Epoch Times. “All our agencies and RCMP detachments and our national headquarters and all our police services really are having to look at this issue at a lot more serious rate than what we did say 10 years ago."

A government report from 2005 said the Native gangs weren't as "sophisticated" as Asian, motorcycle, Eastern European and Italian gangs. But the RCMP says that has changed in recent years.

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