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MONTANA TRIBE OVERWHELMED WITH MEXICAN CARTELS -- Tribal leaders in Montana issued an urgent plea to Congress, saying they are overwhelmed and outmatched as Mexican drug cartels exploit jurisdictional loopholes to embed themselves on Native American reservations with devastating effects. Jeffrey Stiffarm, president of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, testified that the Sinaloa Cartel operates with near impunity in his region, capitalizing on chronic underfunding of law enforcement on the 652,000-acre reservation patrolled by just nine officers. “We are fighting a losing battle. The cartels are winning, the drug dealers are winning,” Stiffarm told Congress. “We are left alone to fight this battle against them.” Stiffarm told “NewsNation Prime” that up to hundreds of thousands of cartel operatives have infiltrated reservations across the American West, using the isolated lands as havens to traffic fentanyl pills and other drugs into the United States without scrutiny from federal authorities. “They know we’re short-staffed, underfunded, under-trained and outnumbered,” said Stiffarm, a former law enforcement officer for two decades. “They’re preying on our people, our children, our women. They get a foothold in and they’re here.” The Fort Belknap leader described cartel tactics like staging fake emergencies to divert the limited police presence, then quickly shuttling narcotics across other parts of the reservation undercover. But the devastation transcends drug running, as cartel operatives deeply embed themselves in tribal communities grappling with 70% unemployment rates and that are hours from urban centers. Stiffarm said rapes and murders committed by cartels have become tragically commonplace. Link to articles below 👇

It's time to return to being "savages". Not in the sense of being uncivilized or primitive, but the other definition... brutal. The tribes need to be seen as savages again. A population that is unwavering, unyielding and brutal. They need to recognize that they can exist in the modern age, possess the ability to be civil, but also be brutal when necessary. Now is the prime time for them to become role models instead of being timid and walked all over like they have been for generations.

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Story time. TL,DR: I want my scalps. I initially made because it was some badass shit (fuck yeah man, skull with an arrow, throw the most badass war paint on it), and I had just gotten back into Illustraitor and Photoshop after a long hiatus… but there are meanings behind it. Honestly I just follow my gut on these things, and the bigger picture is always revealed to me thereafter. Traditionally warriors rocked the hand print war paint if they killed an enemy hand-to-hand or silently in battle. Red or black paint denoting the difference. I chose scalper, because that’s kind of what we do. In modern times it has also been adopted to represent and bring awareness to MMIW (murdered, missing indigenous women) while this isn’t my own meaning (I’m going for war paint), I do have six sisters. The arrow is taken from the Great Seal of The Choctaw Nation. The original seal features three arrows, a tomahawk/peace pipe and a bow, sometimes strung, unstrung, or missing a string. All three have unique meanings: - Strung bow meaning the nation is ready for war - Unstrung representing our love for peace, but readiness for war. - No string is interesting, but I use that for engraving on weapons, and the weapon is the string (featured on my rifle). The arrow on the patch represents accuracy, power, and violence. It’s the result of what happens after the bow is strung. It’s a single arrow taken from the three featured on the original seal, a continuation and evolution of the tribe. Frankly, with all of our new “neighbors” coming in daily, we are all Natives now. Us Indians and cowboys have sufficiently beaten the shit out of each other for a couple centuries, and at this point, it gives me great joy to say that we as countrymen love this country equally, and we all earned being here. The skull represents a lot, you can draw your own meanings, but I just thought it looked neat. I had a realization Jules moment of, “Now... I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. You'd be dead right now. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice.” I realized there was an an acronym: Societies Created After Liberation from Pollitical Eternal Rule P.S. in case you didn’t know, Choctaws traditionally used stick ball, or “Ishtaboli” as a means to prevent conflicts between tribes. Ishtaboli translates to Little Brother of War.